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A review by lanikei
Florence of Arabia by Christopher Buckley
5.0
I loved this book. I tore through it in a single day without stopping.
Buckley has a certain amount of insider knowledge to so accurately catch the lingo of DC and agencies and embassy folk and the embarrassing to-close-to-the-truth situations.
The book has a few missteps that I may be writing off as intentional send-ups of tired cliches. But generally speaking Buckley wrote a well-informed book about the social conflicts in the Middle East and the world's reaction to them. It kept me giggling through the rough spots while still granting some dignity to the women being destroyed by their own culture.
Buckley has a certain amount of insider knowledge to so accurately catch the lingo of DC and agencies and embassy folk and the embarrassing to-close-to-the-truth situations.
The book has a few missteps that I may be writing off as intentional send-ups of tired cliches. But generally speaking Buckley wrote a well-informed book about the social conflicts in the Middle East and the world's reaction to them. It kept me giggling through the rough spots while still granting some dignity to the women being destroyed by their own culture.