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Home Author Archive For Librarians Authors: Get Included Carolyn Baugh Dear Reader, 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 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 "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 "A beautifully written, bittersweet journey. Baugh magically peels away the layers of their complicated world, creating a masterpiece of intensely felt details that will seem at once strange, but familiar.” —Jean Sasson, international bestselling author of Princess TOP OF PAGE BACK TO MAIN PAGE © 2005 by AuthorBuzz