"An award-winning journalist's powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twenty years of war"--

Marina Benjamin grew up in London feeling estranged from her family's exotic Middle Eastern ways. She refused to speak the Arabic her mother and grandmother spoke at home. She rejected the peculiar food they ate in favor of hamburgers and beer. But having her own child a few years ago, she realized her loss in denying links to the past and begins to delve into her family's story as Jews of Iraq.