THE LAST LIGHT OF SINJAR - Digital eBook
 
On the morning of August 3, 2014, the Islamic State swept through the Yazidi heartland of Sinjar. By nightfall, the ancient community that had called these mountains home for four thousand years had been shattered — its men executed, its women taken as slaves, its children scattered across a desert that showed no mercy.
 
This is the story of two sisters.
 
Nadia escapes to the mountain, where tens of thousands of her people are dying of thirst beneath an August sun, waiting for a world that is slow to come. Layla is not so lucky. Taken in the darkness, registered in a slave ledger, and sold to strangers in the self-declared caliphate, she must find a way to survive long enough for something to change — and to hold on to the quiet, daily decision to remain.
 
The Last Light of Sinjar moves between the mountain, the desert, the markets of Raqqa, and the refugee camps of Kurdistan to tell the story of a genocide that happened in full view of the world — documented, photographed, advertised by its perpetrators — and of the women who refused to let it happen in silence.
 
Drawn from hundreds of survivor testimonies and the documented historical record, this novel is an act of witness. It is for the three thousand who came home. It is for the more than two thousand who have not.
 
A Historical Novel of the Yazidi Genocide, 2014
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