'A moving portrait of Diwan and the Cairo that embraced it, an ode
to all the people who have kept it going' Harvard Review In 2002,
three young women with no business degrees, no formal training, and
nothing to lose founded a fiercely independent bookstore. At the
time, nothing like Diwan existed in Cairo. Culture was languishing
under government mismanagement, and books were considered a luxury,
not a necessity. Over the next decade, these three women would
contend with censors, chauvinists, critics, one another and many
people who said they would never succeed in establishing Diwan as
Cairo's leading bookstore. Frank, fresh and very funny, Chronicles
of a Cairo Bookseller is a portrait of a country hurtling toward a
revolution, a feminist rallying cry, and an unapologetic crash
course in running a business under the law of entropy. Above all,
it is a celebration of the power of words to bring us home. 'A
unique memoir about career, life, love, friendship, motherhood, and
the impossibility of succeeding at all of them at the same time . .
. fascinating. Blunt, honest, funny' Jenny Lawson, author of Broken
(in the best possible way) 'For every reader who has found solace
in the aisles of a bookstore' Emma Straub, author of All Adults
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