The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing

by Darina Al-Joundi and Mohamed Kacimi

Book Overview

The Homeland actress's "recollections of her unconventional youth in war-torn Beirut are heartbreaking yet humorous . . . in this unique" memoir (Publishers Weekly).

Raised in 1970s Lebanon on Charles Baudelaire, A Clockwork Orange, and fine Bordeaux, Darina Al-Joundi was encouraged by her unconventional father to defy all taboos. She spent her adolescence defying death in Beirut nightclubs as bombs fell across the city...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B009F7JGYU
• ISBN13: 9781558616837
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Feminist Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.0"