Wow, what an incredible story. The author uses such beautiful descriptions and imagery of her early life in Egypt, that I can see a movie reel running through my head of what it must have been like. Contrast that to her family's exile to America and the bleak exitence they lived there. This book, more than any other in a while, made me think long and hard about my own familys exile (i am the grandchild of holocaust surivors). The story was heartwrenchingly sad, the kind of sadness that s... (show more)

Wow, what an incredible story. The author uses such beautiful descriptions and imagery of her early life in Egypt, that I can see a movie reel running through my head of what it must have been like. Contrast that to her family's exile to America and the bleak exitence they lived there. This book, more than any other in a while, made me think long and hard about my own familys exile (i am the grandchild of holocaust surivors). The story was heartwrenchingly sad, the kind of sadness that sits in you for a long time after you are done reading. (show less)