June 2, 2021: Mohamedou Ould Slahi, the author of The Actual True Story of Ahmed and Zarga (Ohio Swallow Press) and Guantánamo Diary (Little Brown) talks to Bhakti Shringarpure, co-founder of the Radical Books Collective about composing a novel that captures the beauty, silence and wonder of the Sahel desert in Mauritania. Yet the desert tests the fragility of the human body that must survive its cruelty and vastness as well.