"A compassionate, provocative, and alive" (Vogue.com) war story about a young Afghan orphan, "Green on Blue is harrowing, brutal, and utterly absorbing. With spare prose, Ackerman has spun a morally complex tale of revenge, loyalty, and brotherly love" (Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner).

Aziz and his older brother Ali are coming of age in a village amid the pine forests and endless mountains of eastern Afghanistan. They are poor, but inside their mud-walled home, the family has stability, love, and routine. One day a convoy of armed men arrives in their village and...

"Transports readers into a world few Americans know" --Washington Post
"Promises to be one of the most essential books of 2017" --Esquire

A timely new novel of stunning humanity and tension: a contemporary love story set on the Turkish border with Syria.

Haris Abadi is a man in search of a cause. An Arab American with a conflicted past, he is now in Turkey, attempting to cross into Syria and join the fight against Bashar al-Assad's regime. But he is robbed before he can make it, and is taken in by Amir, a charismatic Syrian refugee and former...

Haris Abadi is an Arab American with a conflicted past, now in Turkey attempting to cross into Syria and join the fight. He meets Amir, a charismatic Syrian refugee and former revolutionary, and his wife, Daphne, a sophisticated beauty haunted by grief. Haris's choices become more wrenching: Whose side is he really on? An exploration of loss, second chances, and why we choose to believe.