by Rea Keech | Mar 22, 2022 | All Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Rea's Reviews
Review by Rea Keech In 1974, twenty-five-year-old linguist Margaret, with her husband of six months, went to Iran’s border town of Rezaiyeh to research the Kermanji dialect of Kurdish. There were Kurds in the town, but it was difficult for the young American woman to...
by Rea Keech | Feb 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
By Rea Keech Another novel of international love and intrigue by the prize-winning author of A Hundred Veils Nebulous Enemies is a suspenseful story set in Afghanistan as foreign aid workers fear the looming withdrawal of American forces that protect them from the...
by Rea Keech | Jan 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
By Thomas Keech Kevin Mallory is so good at lying he has convinced himself he has almost an average life. He tries to use his exceptional skill at prevarication to hang onto his job without doing any work, win the love of his co-worker without recognizing who she...
by Rea Keech | Jan 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
Joan Gaughan “Finding in Morgan Shuster a spirit resembling that of the Peace Corps volunteers who served in Iran from 1962 to 1976, I knew the writing of this book was almost unavoidable,” says Joan Gaughan. Her own Peace Corps experience in Iran and her knowledge of...
by Rea Keech | Jan 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
By Joan Gaughan This is a historical account of the effort of Morgan Shuster, a young American accountant who, in May 1911, during a period of democratic revolution went with his family to Persia (Iran) to put its chaotic finances on a sound footing. Less than eight...