Help Wanted, No Experience Necessary
3(12)
Inhaling: Arriving in Iraq
15(6)
A Home in the Desert
21(11)
Unexpected Blows: Day One with My Team
32(5)
Tribes
37(9)
Money and Our Meth Habit
46(9)
Caring about Trash
55(8)
Water and Sewage
63(12)
Democracy in Iraq: A Story of Local Politics
75(5)
Milking the US Government
80(8)
A Torturous Lunch
88(5)
One Too Many Mornings
93(4)
Haircuts and Prostitution
97(4)
Laundry
101(3)
A Break for Dinner
104(5)
Basketball
109(3)
Humanitarian Assistance
112(5)
The Doura Art Show
117(5)
Three Colonels
122(9)
Some Chick Event
131(4)
Widowed Tractors, Bees for Widows
135(5)
Chicken Shit
140(9)
Midcourse Correction
149(5)
The Embassy Lawn, Where the Grass Is Always Greener
154(6)
Economic Conference Blues
160(5)
Spooky Dinner
165(6)
The Day after a Day at the Embassy
171(7)
Soldier Talk
178(8)
Sex
186(7)
General Anxiety
193(6)
Waiting
199(5)
Everyone Was Looking the Other Way
204(12)
Promises to Keep
216(4)
Dairy Carey
220(5)
4-H Club Comes to Iraq
225(4)
Checkpoints
229(5)
Seeing the Dragon
234(6)
Missing Him
240(5)
What Victory Looks Like
245(10)
Exhaling: Leaving Iraq
255(8)
Notes 263(4)
Acknowledgments 267