So Many Enemies, So Little Time: An American Woman in All the Wrong Places, (Paperback)

from Jcambridge

I enjoyed this book, but it did not lead me to add this region to the places I want to visit. My son worked with an organization that brings young people from various regions of the world (including the various "stans" of Central Asia) to visit and learn about the U.S. Meeting and talking with so...

from varielle

Elinor Burkett accepted a Fulbright scholarship to teach for a year in Central Asia post 9/11. This is an excellently written memoir of her travels and experiences throughout the region from Uzbekistan to Afghanistan to Iran and everywhere in between. She is adept at illiciting the locals opinion...

from KAzevedo

I have not enoyed reading History or nonfiction and was pleasantly surprised by this book. The author is a Pullitzer nominated journalist. The book is an easy read, covering the year she spent in Krygyzstan on a Fullbright exchange teaching Journalism, and her travels to other parts of Central As...