If you're like Brad, you don't know much about the Kurdish people other than they have been our allies in the Middle East. That's all getting fixed in today's episode. Kurdish novelist Ava Homa dropped by the Bunker to talk about her debut novel, Daughters of Smoke and Fire. But she and Brad also talk about the history of the Kurdish region, Ava's decision to leave for North America, and how she's used her writing—she's the first Kurdish woman to write an English novel—to make good trouble.

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