RaveThe Dallas Morning NewsBadkhen's distinct journalistic approach places her among and outside the populace, where she dances back and forth between separate witness and embraced participant. She offers an ever-widening knowledge of the culture ... Her poetic style liberates the reader from the familiar, straightforward quality of traditional reportage, but her work remains equally honest and arguably more compassionate. She manages to avoid critique, and rarely projects her Western morals on the habits and predilections of her comrades, instead allowing us to notice our own.
