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Lisa Kirchner hoped moving to Qatar would change everything. Until it did.  Unlike the most women's travel memoirs, this is the story of the person left behind. "What better place to redefine your womanhood than in the Middle East?" Ophira Eisenberg (NPR's Ask Me Another host and Screw Everyone author) wryly observes. "Brimming with wit, brave reflections, and loads of laughs.Think Bridget Jones meets Lawrence of Arabia," says the author of the best-selling Geography of Bliss, Eric Weiner.