<DIV><p>“This first novel by an Iraqi woman to be published in English in the United States is a hallucinatory incantation…an ode to a city…(with) its private courtyards and public baths where the women in Huda’s life rage and pray and love and scream.”—<i>Ms. Magazine</i></p><p>Now in paperback, <i>Naphtalene</i> captures a fierce and defiant young girl as she struggles to form her identity in 1950s Baghdad amid a world of unfulfilled women and family tragedies.</p><p>Iraqi exile <b>Alia Mamdouh</b> is a journalist, essayist, and novelist living in Paris who received the Naguib Mahfouz Prize for Literature in 2004.</p></DIV>