Trent Reedy and Jawad Arash
The following description comes from the event organizer.
Spokane writer Trent Reedy, author of a number of YA and middle-reader novels, and Afghan writer and teacher Jawad Arash - who still lives and teaches there - have collaborated on a new, co-written novel, Enduring Freedom (Workman). This is not the first time the two have partnered on a book project, as Trent Reedy drew on Jawad Arash’s story for an award-winning middle-reader novel, Words in the Dust. This story, of a young Afghan man who suddenly finds his life and already besieged country engulfed by yet more war, and a young U.S. man whose aspiration to be a journalist get upended by being dispatched to Afghanistan, is one of seeking to learn about commonalities and differences in being human, even under traumatic circumstances.