The Kurdish Bike by Alesa Lightbourne

The Kurdish Bike by Alesa Lightbourne

Gold Medal, Best Regional Fiction, Independent Publishers Book Awards 2017

First Prize, North Street Book Contest 2017

Courageous teachers wanted to rebuild war-torn nation.

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.


Based on true events, 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. San Francisco Book Review gave the book five stars and compared it to The Kite Runner. The Manhattan Book Review also gave it five stars, and called it a must-read for anyone interested in the Middle East.

Lightbourne, Alesa: - Alesa Lightbourne has been a professor and teacher in six countries, including Kurdish Iraq, where she taught in 2010. She earned her MFA in creative writing from University of Washington, and ran a corporate writing firm for 20 years. She lives near Monterey Bay in California, and loves to boogie board and (of course) ride a bicycle.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780692758106
ISBN 10	0692758100
Title	The Kurdish Bike
Author	Alesa Lightbourne
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Alesa Lightbourne
Year published	2016-07-19
Number of pages	324
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