Alexandra Karb Trapped Volume 18 (Paperback) Memoir and Biography
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Further Details Title: Trapped Volume 18 Condition: New EAN: 9781771833486 ISBN: 9781771833486 Publisher: Guernica Editions,Canada Format: Paperback Release Date: 04/01/2019 Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: CA Item Height: 230mm Item Length: 155mm Item Weight: 434g Description: When Alexandra attempts to end an abusive marriage, her husband Tareq abducts their infant daughters from their Montreal home and deposits them with his family in a primitive village in Jordan. Trying to retrieve them through legal means, Alexandra comes face to face with Arab cultures where children belong to the father's family and women have no rights to them. She puts a promising career as a medical researcher on hold, sets off alone to Jordan and succeeds in an audacious plan to smuggle her daughters back home. But upon returning to Canada, she finds a judicial system that is unable to protect her children from being kidnapped again -- this time for good, forcing her back to a life with the abusive husband. For the next twenty years, while achieving a PhD and working as a respected scientist, she submits to her husband's tyranny for the sake of her daughters. Her coping mechanism is to dissociate herself from constant verbal and emotional abuse and live as an observant stranger trapped in a life not of h Genre: Biography Topic: Society & Culture, Gender Sex & Relationships Subtitle: A Mother's Quest to Reclaim Her Daughters Item Width: 23mm Author: Alexandra Karb Book Series: Memoir and Biography Release Year: 2019 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
