Deni Ellis Béchard is the author of five books: Vandal Love, winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize; Cures for Hunger, a memoir about his father, who robbed banks; Of Bonobos and Men, winner of the Nautilus Book Award for investigative journalism; Kuei, a book of nonfiction that he cowrote about racism against First Nations people in Canada. He recently published Into the Sun, a novel about the civilian surge in Afghanistan.
Deni Ellis Béchard
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Taimani Alley, Kabul
Winters, before the paving of the neighborhood streets, when rain and snowmelt gathered in long puddles, or froze into broad ruts of broken ice and slush, the alley was a shortcut …
