IN TRANSIT What does undivid...

IN TRANSIT

What does undivided do but recoil at the sight of the burqa onward the cover of Latifa's life narrative My Forbidden Face? In November 2003 in the Newslink bookstore at Melbourne airport I was taken aback by the agency of a massed presentation of autobiographies--called a "block display" in the part trade--which pushes books of a kind before the customer. In fact there were simply three different books on display: Latifa's My Forbidden Face, Jean Sasson's Mayada: Daughter of Iraq, and Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in parts These were arranged en masse, which