Bol’shoe spasibo to Alan and Mimi Drew, Joe and Alycia Campbell, Todd Schleicher, Mayram Tulebaeva, my fellow K1-K3 Peace Corps volunteers, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Lori Glazer, Larry Cooper, and the staff at Houghton Mifflin, as well as the entire Howell crew.
And to my students in Turkey, Arizona, and Kyrgyzstan, for providing me with understanding, inspiration, and hope.
I would also like to acknowledge a debt to Keith Basso’s Wisdom Sits in Places (University of New Mexico Press, 1996) and Ustun Reinart’s article “Of Diapers and Tampons: Women and the Earthquake” (Women’s International Net Newsletter, Issue 95A, October 1999).
About the Author
ROBERT ROSENBERG served as a Peace Corps volunteer in newly independent Kyrgyzstan. Afterward the Peace Corps awarded him a fellowship to teach in a village on the White Mountain Apache Reservation in Arizona. In 1999 he took a teaching job in Istanbul, arriving there five days before the massive earthquake. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Columbia University, he lives in Arizona.
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