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Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War
by Ciezadlo, Annia
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 1416583947
- ISBN 13
- 9781416583943
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Free Press. Used - Good. Paperback This item shows wear from consistent use but remains in good readable condition. It may have marks on or in it, and may show other signs of previous use or shelf wear. May have minor creases or signs of wear on dust jacket. Packed with care, shipped promptly.
Synopsis
American Book Award Winner Winner of Books for a Better Life Award (First Book) James Beard Foundation Award Nominee BNN Discover Awards, second place nonfiction A luminous portrait of life in the Middle East, Day of Honey weaves history, cuisine, and firsthand reporting into a fearless, intimate exploration of everyday survival. In the fall of 2003, Annia Ciezadlo spent her honeymoon in Baghdad. Over the next six years, while living in Baghdad and Beirut, she broke bread with Shiites and Sunnis, warlords and refugees, matriarchs and mullahs. Day of Honey is her memoir of the hunger for food and friendshipa communion that feeds the soul as much as the body in times of war. Reporting from occupied Baghdad, Ciezadlo longs for normal married life. She finds it in Beirut, her husbands hometown, a city slowly recovering from years of civil war. But just as the young couple settles into a new home, the bloodshed they escaped in Iraq spreads to Lebanon and reawakens the terrible specter of sectarian violence. In lucid, fiercely intelligent prose, Ciezadlo uses food and the rituals of eating to illuminate a vibrant Middle East that most Americans never see. We get to know people like Roaa, a determined young Kurdish woman who dreams of exploring the world, only to see her life under occupation become confined to the kitchen; Abu Rifaat, a Baghdad book lover who spends his days eavesdropping in the ancient citys legendary cafs; Salama al-Khafaji, a soft-spoken dentist who eludes assassins to become Iraqs most popular female politician; and Umm Hassane, Ciezadlos sardonic Lebanese mother-in-law, who teaches her to cook rare family recipeswhich are included in a mouthwatering appendix of Middle Eastern comfort food. As bombs destroy her new familys ancestral home and militias invade her Beirut neighborhood, Ciezadlo illuminates the human cost of war with an extraordinary ability to anchor the rhythms of daily life in a larger political and historical context. From forbidden Baghdad book clubs to the oldest recipes in the world, Ciezadlo takes us inside the Middle East at a historic moment when hope and fear collide. Day of Honey is a brave and compassionate portrait of civilian life during wartimea moving testament to the power of love and generosity to transcend the misery of war.
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- Title
- Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War
- Author
- Ciezadlo, Annia
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
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- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1416583947
- ISBN 13
- 9781416583943
- Publisher
- Free Press
- This edition first published
- 2012-02-14
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