U.K. author Elizabeth Loudon (r.) visited Broadside Bookshop in Northampton, Mass., to celebrate the publication of her fiction debut, A Stranger in Baghdad (Hoopoe/The American University in Cairo). Also pictured: Julio Alves (l.), director of the Jacobson Center and Debra Carney (center) of the Sherrerd Center for Teaching & Learning, both of Smith College, where Loudon was previously a student and teacher.