About A Border Passage, my friend writes me:

“it’s a memoir
it was very interesting how she went over
the history of the middle east
and what being ‘arab’ means

her critique of said’s orientalism was interesting

as well as her comment on the state of feminism in the
US in the 70s
…
if you ever read it,
i’d love to know what you think of it
for me, the good part came at the very end
in the beginning, i was worried she was
going to be another amy tang (joy luck club)”

I am sending this for Christmas to three people close to me. The time to take the time for something like understanding.