Book: 1,000 Nights: Death's Love Letter to Afghanistan by Eli Gardner

1,000 Nights: Death's Love Letter to Afghanistan by Eli Gardner Winner of 2022 American Fiction Awards-- Visionary Fiction CategoryWinner of an Honorable Mention at the L.A. Book Festival Softcover, 244 pages Meet Death, and the girl who makes a deal with her.Half war story, half fairytale, 1000 Nights follows Afghan-American translator Sergeant Zee West as she conducts patrols in Afghanistan. An IED blast separates her from her unit, and she is taken hostage by a man with plans to ransom her to the Taliban for a small fortune. Her desperate journey begins as she attempts to humanize herself to her captor and dissuade him from his agenda. She begins to tell him a story she has penned about a girl who makes a deal with Death and must accomplish 5 seemingly impossible tasks, battling dark genies along the way. Each task represents a sense that binds one to life-- touch, smell, sight, hearing and taste. Yet, every night, Zee intentionally shares only 1 chapter, leaving her captor curious