In the Country of Women: A Memoir PB_Gift_Guide Wadi Rum (Jordan)

Wadi Rum (Jordan)

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In the Country of Women: A Memoir PB_Gift_Guide Wadi Rum (Jordan)One of NPR's Best Books of the Year Straights memoir is a lyric social history of her multiracial clan in Riverside that explores the bonds of love and survival that bind them, with a particular emphasis on the womens stories . . . The aftereffect of all these disparate stories juxtaposed in a single epic is remarkable. Its resonance lingers for days after reading. San Francisco Chronicle In the Country of Women is a valuable social history and a