Dust That Never Settles Literary Afterlives of the Iran-Iraq War Political Ideologies from essential oils to avocado

from essential oils to avocado masks and prickly pear massages

Brilliantly and vividly written

It also situates the novel among the kindred texts that have proliferated since its publication

Each day of Advent reveals a new animal's astonishing adaptation to the dark and cold--Wood Frog becomes a frog-shaped cube of ice

and endlessly rewarding

Dust That Never Settles Literary Afterlives of the Iran-Iraq War Political Ideologies from essential oils to avocadoLasting from September 1980 to August 1988, the Iran Iraq War was the longest conventional war fought between two states in the twentieth century. It marked a period that began just after a revolutionary government in Iran became an Islamic Republic and Saddam Hussein consolidated power in Iraq. It ended with both wartime governments still in power, borders unchanged, yet hundreds of thousands of people dead. Neither side emerged as a clear victor,