The River Runs Salt, Runs Sweet: A Memoir of Visegrad, Bosnia

At 15, Jasmina Dervisevic had typical teenage problems. How could she talk to the boy she liked without making a fool of herself? Would she find the right shoes to wear to the high-school party?

She had heard the old stories about World War II, when neighbor turned against neighbor, but she seldom gave them a second thought. That had all happened ages ago, and she was living in a modern Yugoslavian city where Serbs and Muslims were close friends.

Then Yugoslavia began to break apart. The national army turned its guns against its own people, and Jasmina had to grow up fast.