Jinwar and Other Stories

<p>Alex Poppe's characters celebrate the fragile grandeur of living an independent life in the aftermath of violence. Deeply rooted in place these stories are about identity hope and redemption as fierce and flawed women rebuild their lives in the wake of war. The young women sparking through these pages are surprising funny and devastating: the essence of womanhood.</p><p>The title piece Jinwar is a funny yet heartbreaking story of an American woman who survived rape in the military was denied due process and found herself working in a food truck shaped like a hot dog during the Kavanaugh hearings.</p><p>Her struggle to rebuild her life takes her across the globe to the Middle East to Jinwar an all-female village in Rojava northeastern Syria. Here survivors of war patriarchy and genocide un-make violence and search for ways to heal.</p><p><b>Timely and prescient Jinwar is a story for the #YesAllWoman world.</b></p>