A journalist for over twenty years, Susan Spencer-Wendel left her job as courts reporter for the Palm Beach Post when she was diagnosed with ALS. Her new memoir is Until I Say Good-Bye: My Year of Living With Joy.One entry on her six favorite books list, as told to The Week magazine:
The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib MahfouzRead about another book on Spencer-Wendel's list.
In Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street, Mahfouz follows generations of an Egyptian family from World War I to the 1950s. These novels escort us inside palaces, behind veils, into the Muslim world.
The Cairo Trilogy is one of Dominique Browning's must-read family sagas.
Sugar Street appears on Mary Ann Glendon's five best list of literary works which excel in their depiction of religion and politics.
--Marshal Zeringue
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