Appreciation of I Never Went to the Casbah/Without ever meeting the author, a reader of I Never Went to the Casbah feels sure s/he knows exactly how Pierrette Camps Komarek talks. Her memoir is so fluent and imaginatively descriptive, it's amazing that English is her second language. The charm and kindness and wisdom that come through cause a genuine sigh of regret when the last page has been turned.You get an original source lesson in history, a lively picture of an exotic locale and unique life styles, and a novelist's dream plot?and it's all true. Prepare to be chaarmed and eager for more from this wonderful untutored talent.Joan L. Cannon/This book is about my unusual childhood, spent working in my parents CafAA(c). Starting at the age of twelve, and the American G.I. I later married at seventeen that would then bring me to America.