Amem­oir of a young wife and moth­er who trav­els as a war cor­re­spon­dent tothe most dan­ger­ous places of the past decade and brings back with her­refresh­ing, read­able mem­o­ries of the peo­ple she met, the strife they­faced, and the food she ate with them, giv­ing us (1) a new sense of thea­maz­ing lengths and depths to which suf­fer­ing can take both a vic­tim anda reporter, (2) a strong belief in the capac­i­ty for good in all humans,no mat­ter what the odds, and (3) a few mouth­wa­ter­ing recipes.