Midaq Alley Book cover type:Pocket Jenna is tired of being

Jenna is tired of being told what she can’t have—and ready to reach for what she wants

Renny Sands sees the possibility of big story

Until it becomes clear that someone else knows too

But then someone pulls a string and the house of cards she laboured so hard to build comes crashing down around her

Midaq Alley Book cover type:Pocket Jenna is tired of beingWidely acclaimed as Naguib Mahfouz's best novel, Midaq Alley brings to life one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo in the 1940s. From Zaita the cripple maker to Kirsha the hedonistic cafe owner, from Abbas the barber who mistakes greed for love to Hamida who sells her soul to escape the alley, from waiters and widows to politicians, pimps, and poets, the inhabitants of Midaq Alley vividly evoke Egypt's largest city as it teeters on the