“Our story begins before before all this, in the reign of al-Mustansir, when Cairo was still two cities and the Jews but a tribe among them.” The Last Watchman of Old Cairo by Michael David Lukas is one the season’s most beautiful and compelling novels. #
There is no perfect, ideal, and cohesive road for motherhood, only the twist and turns of the “figure it out yourself” sort... Was I ever a fully-fledged person before I had my children? Why yes, of course I was… I had a life and it was a great one –...
