In the Afternoon Sun: My Alexandria by Julie Hill

Experienced author and traveler, Julie Hill, an Alexandrian Greek, takes us back to her native city in this colorful and poignant memoir. She paints a picture of a childhood in a cosmopolitan city in the first half of the 20th century evoking the life and customs of a Greek family within Alexandria’s foreign community until 1956, when she departs for a new life in America. She returns decades later to note the changes, the lost landmarks and the inevitable transformation of the city of her most cherished memories. The material is timeless. It is not so much an individual life that is represented but that of a Greek community from time and place that soon very few will remember.