Reader recommendation: The Cairo House
Monitor readers share their favorite book recommendations.
April 11, 2011
The Cairo House, a novel by Samia Serageldin, is an engrossing account of one woman鈥檚 coming-of-age in a politically prominent land-owning Egyptian family. Her father鈥檚 sequestration under Nasser parallels her own exiles abroad to escape a failed marriage. Ms. Serageldin opened my eyes to a vibrant, complex 颅culture.