Dancing into the Light (eBook)

An Arab American Girlhood in the Middle East

Kathryn Abdul-baki (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
336 Seiten
She Writes Press (Verlag)
978-1-64742-538-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Set against the backdrop of the early American presence in Iran under the Shah, and the burgeoning years of Kuwait's early oil boom, Dancing into the Light is Kathryn Abdul-Baki's memoir of growing up within both the expatriate Western communities and the larger Middle Eastern society of Kuwait and Jerusalem. Hers is a story of belonging to two vastly different cultures and finding her place within both, and the search to find the inherent harmony in worlds at odds with each other. She is already caught in both the joys of and the struggle to be both Arab and American, yet not fully either, when her young life of promise is disrupted by tragedy. But instead of derailing her life, her mother's death opens the door to deeper love and support from other places within Kathryn's family. Dancing into the Light is a story of love, loss, and renewal, and of overcoming devastating early trauma through music, dancing, and the love and devotion of strong American and Arab women.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.9.2023
• Verlagsort: Berkeley
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Arab woman memoir • Beirut Lebanon • Bicultural daughter memoir • Bicultural memoir • Early mother loss • Expatriate Communities • Healing after grief • Honolulu • Latin Dance • Motherless girl memoir • Mount of Olives • Muslim Arab daughter • Palestine • persian gulf • Tennessee • the south
• ISBN-10: 1-64742-538-7 / 1647425387
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64742-538-8 / 9781647425388