TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sardar,Gian
TI  - Take what you can carry: a novel 
SN  - 9781542026895
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Seattle
PB  - Lake Union Publishing
KW  - Photojournalists
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Kurds
KW  - Iraq
KW  - Families
KW  - Terrorism
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Kurdistān (Iraq)
KW  - Romance fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes discussion questions
N2  - A secretary determined to become a photojournalist in 1979 accompanies her Kurdish boyfriend to a wedding in northern Iraq where she is awakened to a world of constant threat and captures a tragic moment on film that upends her life; 1979. Olivia Murray, a secretary at a Los Angeles newspaper, is determined to become a photojournalist. When opportunity arrives, she seizes it, accompanying her Kurdish boyfriend, Delan, to northern Iraq for a family wedding, hoping to capture an image that lands her a job in the photo department. More important, though, the trip is a chance to understand Delan's childhood and bridge the differences of their pasts. The trip proves less safe than Delan believed, and Olivia is confronted with a reality she had not expected: the dangers of a town patrolled by Iraqi military and under curfew and constant threat. When Olivia captures a tragic moment on film, it upends all their lives.  -- adapted from jacket
ER  -