A review by amphipodgirl
Come, Tell Me How You Live by Agatha Christie

3.0

This is a pleasant little read -- an account of day-to-day life during three years of archaeological digs in the years immediately before World War II. It's probably of most interest to lovers of Christie's mysteries. The account of shopping for the expeditionary life is in a voice very familiar to those who love the little asides in the Miss Marple novels. and there's a conversation with a Kurdish woman which is clearly the source of the conversation Mrs. Upjohn is having on the bus in Anatolia when she is fetched home in Cat Among the Pigeons. It's full of humor. The generalizations about the Arab and Kurdish workers feel very stereotyped, and I would be interested to know how much truth they bear and how those cultural divides looked from the other side.