PositiveLos Angeles Review of Books...Chronicle of a Last Summer by Yasmine El Rashidi explore the Egyptian 'after' with all of the dizzying frustrations, contradictions, and possibilities that the post-revolutionary world affords ... Written in English, it is the first-person account of a woman coming of age in a politically fraught Egypt ...political experience in El Rashidi’s work is colored by erasure ...El Rashidi’s narrator points to the limitations of language for narrating contemporary political experience... If revolution is a grand climax, Chronicle reminds us it is forged by hot summer days, simmering anger, and monotony ... In the end of Chronicle, we are left in the Egypt of 2014, which bears a striking resemblance to the Egypt of 1984.
