I have Iraq in my shoe: misadventures of a soldier of fashion: a memoir 9781402265808, 1402265808, 9781402265815, 1402265816

Table of contents :
Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Part 1: Opportunity Knocks
Chapter One: Fiddle-Dee-Dee
Chapter Two: Knock-Knock, It's Iraq!
Chapter Three: Details, Details
Chapter Four: Joan of Arc & She-Ra Will Work for Shoes
Chapter Five: Hockey Bags, Eh?
Chapter Six: As the Dude Turns
Part 2: Everything! Exciting & New!
Chapter Seven: The Iraq--Welcome to Smell
Chapter Eight: I'm an Immigrant
Chapter Nine: "E" is for "Erbil" and "Embellishment"
Chapter Ten: Attempted Assimilation
Chapter Eleven: Assimilation Speed Bumps
Chapter Twelve: Escaping Erbil. Chapter Thirteen: We've Got Students, Convenience, and HookersChapter Fourteen: Shopping, BBQing, and Santa Claus
Chapter Fifteen: Serenity Later
Chapter Sixteen: Actual Assimilation
Chapter Seventeen: Inshallah
Part 3: The Honeymoon is Over
Chapter Eighteen: Idle Threats
Chapter Nineteen: Erbil is Da Bomb
Chapter Twenty: The Real Housewives of Erbil
Part 4: Change is Good
Chapter Twenty-one: Happy Birthday! Kind of.
Chapter Twenty-two: Kicking and Screaming
Chapter Twenty-three: The New Students
Chapter Twenty-four: Awat's Happening
Chapter Twenty-five: Virginity Soap. Chapter Twenty-six: Common Sense, Totally BrokenChapter Twenty-seven: The Straw That Broke the Donkey's Back
Part 5: Love! Exciting and New!
Chapter Twenty-eight: Afternoon Delight
Chapter Twenty-nine: Shifta
Chapter Thirty: Crazy Pills
Chapter Thirty-one: He's Just Not That into You
Chapter Thirty-two: Blockheads and Kissing Cousins
Chapter Thirty-three: Georgie Catstanza
Chapter Thirty-four: Psychic Sahar
Chapter Thirty-five: The Joys of Travel
Part 6: Clarity
Chapter Thirty-six: OMG!
Chapter Thirty-seven: New Year, New News
Chapter Thirty-eight: Ethics, Schmethics. Chapter Thirty-nine: My Villa/Hotel/OfficeChapter Forty: Reality Bites
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Back Cover.

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