This is intense year, harrowing, and deeply disturbing memoir of a woman's sustained resistance to the world around her. Darina Al-Jundi's story of her family life and youthful extremity in Beirut, of war and Its unspeakable violence, and of a Culture That Becomes increasingly intolerant and oppressive in the name of religion, Especially of women, is Told with Such brutal immediacy, I Both found myself Moved and frightened. At once historical and personal, the book is the testament of an unrepentant rebel, who, in the end, Has No choice goal to leave everything and everyone behind her.
