One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American writers
EDITED BY Zohra Saed AND Sahar Muradi
(The University of Arkansas Press, 2010)
A remarkable stand-out anthology offering poetry, fiction, essays and selections from the blogs of photographers Masood Kamandy and Gazelle Samizay. Editors Zohra Saed and Sahar Muradi state in their introduction, “This collection reveals what it is that makes the Afghan American experience particular and distinct, what sets it apart.” Among the authors’ topics are Displacement, Identity and Self-Making, Post-911, Women’s Voices, and War. Also included is a Chronology of Afghan American History. Fifty enlightening works of human experience and art.