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At the heart of Murphy's ambitious second novel (after Christodora) lies half Irish, half Lebenese Rita Khoury, who grows up in rural Massachusetts, attends Harvard, and fulfills her lifelong dream of becoming a reporter for a major national newspaper. In Baghdad at the height of the Gulf War on the kind of assignment she's always wanted, Rita throws herself into the job. But the horrors of the war are far worse than expected, and she comes to d...Log In or Sign Up to Read More