Seierstad’s strategy as a journalist is to talk—directly, personally and relentlessly—to as many people on the ground and in the thick of it as she can possibly get access to, often staying in dangerous locales after most other reporters have fled.
Her first book, The Bookseller of Kabul, was an account of life in Afghanistan before, during, and after the removal of the Taliban, and was a thought-provoking choice that was popular with many local book clubs.
This new book, in which she collects her reporting from Baghdad in 2003, follows the story from the first coalition attacks to the city’s fall from a determinedly small-scale and human perspective.
