Day of Honey
$18.00
In the fall of 2003, as Iraq descended into civil war, Annika Ciezaldo spent her honeymoon in Baghdad. For the next six years she lived in Baghdad and Beirut, where she dodged bullets during sectarian street battles, chronicled the Arab world’s first peaceful revolution, and watched Hezbollah commandos invade her Beirut neighborhood. Throughout all of it, she broke bread with Sunnis and Shiites, warlords and refugees, matriarchs and mullah. Day of Honey is her story of the hunger for food and friendship during wartime - a communion that feed the soul as much as the body.
”Her book is among the least political, and most intimate and valuable, to have come out of the Iraq war . . . Ciezaldo is the kind of thinker who listens as well as she writes.” -Dwight Garner, The New York Times