Children Kept From The Sun

About the Book

About the Author

Frances Garrett Connell is a former Peace Corps volunteer. She did her doctoral dissertation at Columbia University on the Afhgan village of Tashkurghan and its uses of literacy, The Authoring of Selves: Literacy and its Indigenous Forms in a Traditional Afghan Village. She has published a volume of poetry, (The Rest is Silence) and a novel (Down Rivers of Windfall Night) with Xlibris, as well as four books as part of her own oral history press, ARS (A Reminiscence Sing.), several dozen pieces in ssmall magazines and association publications. She has never returned to Afghanistan, but three sons and a husband keep her memories alive, teach her the meaning of time and of love, and nurture her desire to hear, heed and pass on the stories.