
The Kurdish Bike: A Novel
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Alesa Lightbourne
Gold Medal: Best Regional Fiction e-Book, Independent Publishers Book Awards 2017
First Place: Best Fiction of 2017, North Street Book Contest
With her marriage over and life gone flat, Theresa Turner responds to an online ad and lands at a school in Kurdish Iraq. Befriended by a widow in a nearby village, Theresa is embroiled in the joys and agonies of traditional Kurds, especially the women who survived Saddam's genocide only to be crippled by age-old restrictions, brutality, and honor killings.
Theresa's greatest challenge will be balancing respect for cultural values while trying to introduce more enlightened attitudes toward women - at the same time seeking new spiritual dimensions within herself.
The Kurdish Bike is gripping, tender, wry, and compassionate - an eye-opener into little known customs in one of the world's most explosive regions - a novel of love, betrayal, and redemption.
©2016 Alesa M. Lightbourne (P)2018 Alesa LightbourneListeners also enjoyed...




















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