I’ve loved Geraldine Brooks novels: they are so readable, muscular and tight and full of detail that doesn’t overwhelm a galloping plot. Before she started writing novels, she was a reporter, a daring, adventurous, bad-ass foreign correspondent. Nine Parts of Desire is her reporting from across parts of the Muslim world. What is done to women with in the name of the Koran, whether literal or perverted by political and misogyny, ranges from sad to horrific.
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