Mia Kirshner's best known as an actress who's played edgy roles from Exotica's young stripper to The L Word's Jenny, the character fans love to hate. Surprisingly, though, Kirshner's first book, I Live Here, comes out this month; more surprisingly, it's a touching, gorgeously produced, and thoughtfully edited compilation of stories from the world's trouble spots. Exploring war in Chechnya, ethnic cleansing in Burma, globalization in Mexico, and AIDS in Malawi, I Live Here combines reportage, photography, fiction, and comics to create a group portrait of the lives of refugees and displaced people worldwide.

One of the most powerful parts of I Live Here is a newly published comic by Joe Sacco, author of Palestine and the world's foremost graphic journalist. Vulture is proud to present an exclusive excerpt from "Chechen War, Chechen Women," by Joe Sacco, from I Live Here, edited by Mia Kirshner, J.B. MacKinnon, Paul Shoebridge, and Michael Simons.