“[Feryal] Ali Gauhar’s epistolary approach highlights not only the horrifying but also the withering monotony of prison life . . . it’s a haunting and important read, as the war continues eight years later, without more of an end-or sense-in sight.”
—Jonathan Messinger, Time Out Chicago

“Profoundly touching . . . Feryal Ali Gauhar questions us and forces us to face our responsibilities as universal citizens. In a mirror effect, she makes us see the image of a world that has become its own tormentor.”
—Yasmina Khadra, author of The Swallows of Kabu

“Searing and relentless, No Space for Further Burials uses the story of one Army medical technician held captive in Afghanistan to offer a much larger and more devastating chronicle of the folly of war. With both astonishing lyricism and a piercing specificity, Feryal Ali Gauhar illuminates the darkest of corners, leaving the reader haunted, transformed.”
—Megan Abbott, author of Queenpin, winner of an Edgar Award

“In No Space for Further Burials, Feryal Ali Gauhar has crafted a novel of unrelenting truth, held in transcendent prose and an exquisite grace. There is no easy redemption here, but there is light and more light.”
—Chris Abani, author of Becoming Abigail and Song for Night

“In writing through the eyes of an American captive in Afghanistan, Feryal Ali Gauhar has fashioned a fascinating two-way mirror in which we see the author creating an Other confronting Otherness. As in Richard Powers’s hostage novel Plowing the Dark, the mask of character reveals as much as it conceals.”
—Stewart O’Nan, author of Songs for the Missing

“An unbearably beautiful book, one you will not soon forget . . . What Gauhar shows us is that in a war there are only those who die and those who survive, and sometimes even those lines get blurred. And that’s what keeps you hungrily turning the pages.”
—Radhika Jha, author of Smell