I was interested in this book because I never read in sufficient depth the perspective of the Jews native to the Middle East about what happened in the second half of the 1900s. Why did all these countries suddenly lose their millennia-long Jewish presence when modern Israel was created?

The book did not answer these questions completely, but it did shed some light on some drivers of that change in the city of Baghdad. It is a memoir after all, and it focused a lot on the personal experience of the author.

I would highlight about this book that it never tried to propagandize, rather sticking to personal lived experience and historical facts, making it a relaxing, easy read.