"This is a little gem of a book. Painfully honest, beautifully composed, My Father's Rifle sets down the author's compelling experience of growing up as a boy in Iraqi Kurdistan with a bittersweet clarity that cuts right through all the fog of war and propagandized history.' Jon Lee Anderson, author of
The Fall of Baghdad
'Children speak the truth. This beautiful and remarkable book tells the story of the Kurdish people, as seen by a child. His father would be proud.' Gil Courtemanche, author of
A Sunday by the Pool at Kigali