Kachachi worked as a journalist in Baghdad before settling in Paris in the 1980s, and her fiction is haunted by the absent home. The American Granddaughter (2008) follows an Iraqi-American interpreter working with US forces during the occupation; Tashari (2013) is a polyphonic family novel of Iraqi Christians scattered between Baghdad, Paris, and Toronto.
Recurring themes
the Iraqi diaspora
the interpreter as figure
the loss of the multiconfessional Baghdad
exile as inheritance
Selected works
- 2005Lawra Diakku's Heart
- 2008The American Granddaughter
- 2013Tashari
- 2017The Outcast