The Khaarijee: A Chronicle of Friendship and War in Kabul by J. Malcolm Garcia (2009)

Ex-library Hardcover with in Good (G) condition. Light library markings. DJ wrapped in protective cover. Clean and straight. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to a local library.  Shortly after September 11, J. Malcolm Garcia—a self-described middle-aged, middle-of-the-road midwesterner—arrived in Afghanistan. A former social worker, he had only recently become a reporter and had never covered a war. As for Afghanistan, he barely knew where it was. But during the next seven years of travel between Kansas City and a post-Taliban Afghanistan, Garcia found an emotional and professional center—one that, in spite of other assignments and war reporting, drew him back to the region over and over again. Unlike flyby reporters traveling through the country armed with a sat phone and a ticket for the next flight to Islamabad, Garcia settled into Afghanistan—learning its history, meeting its resilient people, occasionally making dreadful faux pas but u