Traces of Enayat -- Iman Mersal, Paperback Bibles beset by mercurial and oft

beset by mercurial and oft drugged-out stars

an off-kilter Mary Poppins bossing everyone around and getting quite a lot wrong

The Smithsonian Magazine

I have her escorted out of the press conference

Traces of Enayat -- Iman Mersal, Paperback Bibles beset by mercurial and oftFrom one of the preeminent poets of the Arabic speaking world, a brilliant work of creative nonfiction retracing the mysterious life and erasure of Egyptian literature's tragic heroine. "A subtle and universal exploration of identity." Aida Alami, The New York Times Cairo, 1963: four years before her lone novel is finally published, the writer Enayat al Zayyat takes her own life at age 27. For the next three decades, it's as if Enayat never existed at