Jamil Jan Kochai was born in Pakistan and grew up in the United States. He has a master's in English from University of California, Davis and a bachelor's degree in English from California State University, Sacramento. He is currently attending the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and has been published in A Public Space and The Capilano Review.
A coming-of-age story about one boy's journey across
contemporary Afghanistan to find and bring home the family dog,
blending the grit and immediacy of voice-driven fiction like We
Need New Names with the mythmaking of One Thousand and One
Nights.
