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Carolyn Baugh
Dear Librarian, Living in Egypt for a year changed my life forever; the first thing to go was a whole musty shelf of misconceptions, and the second thing to go was my all my tidy assumptions about the way the world works. THE VIEW FROM THE GARDEN CITY sets out to paint the lives of several Egyptian women in colors as rich and vivid as the country itself. As a student wandering the city, I only got to know its surfaces; my Egyptian friends ushered me into the city's most intimate nooks and crannies. The title "Garden City” represents not only the Cairo neighborhood of the same name, but the fact that in that gritty cement jungle of twenty million inhabitants, where life's challenges are almost overwhelming, women—and men—still set down tender roots, still blossom and flourish. Please visit us.macmillan.com/tor/promo/gardencity for more information and the chance to win a signed copy! Best, Carolyn Baugh "Slowly, Baugh weaves a rich tapestry of women's lives through their stories. Without preaching, she demonstrates that patriarchal custom, not religion, places women in subservience. The narrator's neighbors, all vibrant, intelligent individuals, provide the narrator with more of an education than her classes. This timely, important, readable book should be in most libraries” —Library Journal "What gives the novel depth is the fact that men are not all demonized...The female characters also move well beyond the usual stereotypes... Baugh gets behind the veil by surprising us with her plot, characters, and sense of place.” —Booklist "In Baugh's evocative debut, an unnamed American woman studying at the American University in Cairo bears witness to the lives of several Cairene women, finding their lives at once heartbreaking, fascinating and inspiring.” —Publishers Weekly
The View From Garden City / Carolyn Baugh / Forge Books / Hardcover; 336 Pages
Price: $13.95 / ISBN: 978-0765316578 / Published: August, 2008 Carolyn Baugh is one of our featured authors this week. Click here to view her reader comments and feel free to use them in your newsletters. |