"I had no idea how to find my way around this medieval city. It was getting dark. I was tired. I didn t speak Arabic. I was a little frightened. But hadn t I battled scorpions in the wilds of Costa Rica and prevailed? Hadn t I survived fainting in a San Jose brothel? Hadn t I once arrived in Ireland with only $10 in my pocket and made it last two weeks? Surely I could handle a walk through an unfamiliar town. So I took a breath, tightened the black scarf around my hair, and headed out to take my first solitary steps through Sana a."-- from The Woman Who Fell From The...
"I had no idea how to find my way around this medieval city. It was getting dark. I was tired. I didn t speak Arabic. I was a...
