White Zone

Nouri and his cousin Talib can only vaguely remember a time before tanks rumbled over the streets of their Baghdad neighborhood—when books, not bombs, ruled Mutanabbi Street. War has been the backdrop of their young lives. And now Iraq isn''t just at war with Americans. It''s at war with itself. Sunnis fight Shiites, and the strife is at the boys'' doorsteps. Nouri is Shiite and Talib is half Sunn...