In 'The Book Of Collateral Damage,' An Accounting Of What Baghdad Lost
The novelist and poet Sinan Antoon, raised in Iraq and now living in New York, returned home following the 2003 U.S. occupation. That experience inspired his new work of fiction.
The novelist and poet Sinan Antoon grew up in Baghdad, Iraq — a city that's known many years of sorrow.
He was born to an Iraqi father and an American mother, and lived there until 1991. That was the year of the first U.S. invasion of Iraq, when he hid in the basement of a restaurant as U.S. bombs fell.
Antoon later moved to New York. But after the United States bombed Baghdad again in 2003, and took over Iraq, Antoon went back to make a documentary film.
He stayed at a hotel, since its generators guaranteed electricity with which
