June Pecchia’s Reviews > An Unnecessary Woman > Status Update

As I approach the last thirty-some pages of The Unnecessary Woman, I am stricken with the need to see some photos of a central character: the city of Beirut, Lebanon. Alameddine's narrator "...Aaliyah, the high one, the above..." describes the city with the intimacy and empathy of a native, a trapped native. Youtube, I find, has many a paean of love to Beirut. Watching a few gives me a sense of place.