Nonfiction. "Written against the background of war at the turn of this century, this millennium--the Gulf War, the Lebanese civil war and the military occupations of that country, the author's country of origin--these letters, OF CITIES AND WOMEN, are in their turn now letters to cities and women--that we, that is, women and men alike, might eventually, before it is too late, 'find the right geography for our revelations.'"--Barbara Harlow