Ms. Barker had no experience as a foreign correspondent, a
largely unused passport, spoke no foreign languages, and was a completely
inexperienced journalist in many other ways when the Chicago Tribune sent her off to Afghanistan in 2002 to cover “the
forgotten war” there. That war, like the
Taliban she went to interview, still lingers on well over a decade later. Darkly funny, it is this war’s M.A.S.H., or Catch-22. Filled with
insights into the Afghan people and the country she fell in love with, and into
Pakistan where she was posted afterwards.
WTF indeed. 302 pp.
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