by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

isbn: 0881334049
subject: Nonfiction, Travel, Biography
finished: 2/9/1999

I first read this book in 1984, when I was eleven, just before my family moved to Settat, Morocco for three years. I'm a little surprised that I finished it at that age since A Street in Marrakech is written from a mature woman's perspective and spends a lot of time describing the lives of the women on Rue Tresor, the street in Marrakech's medina that the Ferneas move to. Probably I was kept interested by the descriptions of the three children in the family and their experiences adapting to life in Morocco. Anyway, it was entertaining and surreal to reread this book since I can compare the way I imagined life in Morocco with the way it actually turned out to be. This is a good book, and I'd recommend it to anyone who is about to visit an Islamic country, or interested in what day-to-day life there is like.