Nile Author:Laurie Devine In a small Moslem village on the morning when a painful ancient ritual marks Mona's coming of age, her mother defiantly vows: It will be better for Mona than it was for my mother, and for my mother's mother. It is a promise that Mona is destined to fulfill, though not at all in the way her mother intended. — At the same t... more »ime, in the sleek westernized world of cosmopolitan Alexandria, Yousseff al-Masri is growing up in a rich, secular Arab-Jewish family. His is a world of exclusive British schools and afternoon tea in velvet drawing rooms. Youssef is destined at best for a life at the secure center of Alexandria's international set, at worst for a life of belly-dancer bedazzled and hashish scented dissapation. Destined, that is, until he and Mona meet and eventually fall into an impossible love and until history tears their world and them apart.« less