This book acts almost as a kind of ethnology of the Chechen, at least in their recent history, with added focus on some specific ethnic groups and certain parts of the former Soviet territory. It’s also the account of the meetings of parents, the moving of families, and integration of immigrants into American society, about both the success and failures of law enforcement, and the general discomfort many Americans feels with something that is clearly terrorism also evokes other questions about America. It’s also a […]