Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.

Map of Modern-Day Iraq and Iran.

Prologue.

PART ONE: Childhood.

1 Little Peshmerga Girl.

2 Martyrs Hill.

3 Sprinkled by Stardust.

4 Baathist Terror.

5 Ra'ad and Hady Return.

PART TWO: Joanna Grows Up.

6 Death.

7 My Mother and My Father.

8 Love in a Torn Land.

9 War.

10 The Trenches.

11 Ra'ad Leaves Us.

12 The End of Hope.

13 The Secret Police.

14 Love Letters.

PART THREE: Love and Tragedy in Kurdistan.

15 Love and Marriage.

16 Under the Bergalou Sky.

17 Good Kurd, Bad Kurd.

18 Chemical Attack.

19 Blinded.

20 Escape to Merge.

21 Bombed in Merge.

22 Climbing Kandil Mountain.

23 Searching for Auntie Aisha.

24 Kosha, Child of My Heart.

Epilogue: Freedom!

Where Are They Now?

Chronology of Key Events Affecting Modern-Day Iraqi Kurds.

Glossary.

Index.