Title: Late for tea at the Deer Palace
Description: Relates the author's entrance into Iraq in 2003, ten days after the fall of Baghdad, to investigate the rich history of her family, who held a privileged place in Iraqi society until the 1950s, when they were forced to flee.
Subjects: Social conditions, Family, Biography, History, Families, New York Times reviewed, Iraq, biography, Iraq, history, Iraq, social conditions, Iraqis
Places: Iraq
People: Chalabi family, Tamara Chalabi
Time periods: 20th century, 1921-