The View from Garden City (Hardcover) by Carolyn Baugh

from Shannon29

I think this book was written very well. It was easy to read with incredibly vivid descriptions. However, I felt like the moral of the stories about many of the woman in this book was that "it's ok to settle." The author seemed to be telling us that settling for whatever comes along is the way to...

from kiwifortyniner

This is another book on the lives of Muslim women. I have read a few but I liked the way this story was told. It tells the story through the eyes of a young American student living in the Garden City district of Cairo. She has come to learn Arabic but she learns much more from the Egyptian women ...

from jeterat

This book was an excellent narrative of the stores of several women living in the Garden District of Cairo prior to the uprisings in Egypt. I read it in high school and return to their stories over and over again as helping me to understand women in Egypt better.

from jeterat

This book was an excellent narrative of the stores of several women living in the Garden District of Cairo prior to the uprisings in Egypt. I read it in high school and return to their stories over and over again as helping me to understand women in Egypt better.