Gzar Mortada - The River Knows My Name - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: From award - winning writer Mortada Gzar author of the acclaimed memoir I m in Seattle Where Are You? comes an enthralling and lyrical novel about a girl's liberating self - discovery in Iraq. Fifteen - year - old Charlotte is restlessly coming of age in early twentieth - century Basra Iraq. The daughter of a Seattle doctor and missionary Charlotte craves an adventure of her own making. Just the thought of the steppes hills valleys and the winding river stirs Charlotte's imagination and sends her compass of flight dancing. So preferring the wondrous unknown to solicitude Charlotte packs up copies of her father's Gospels and a statue of the Baby Jesus and runs away. Then in a desperate search to find his daughter Charlotte's own father goes missing. With the help of two women the mission's Sister Baghdadli and Shathra a guide to the lost Charlotte embarks on a quest steeped in local lore and as mysterious and marvelous as the river itself. In turn Charlotte may find what's she's been looking for all along: the ability to stake a claim on her own identity. In this rich and immersive novel Mortada Gzar explores the power of belief the drive for escape and the exhilaration of self - discovery.
Title: The River Knows My Name
Author(s): Gzar Mortada
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Barcode: 9781542038973
Pages: 207 Pages
Publication Date: 10/8/2024
Category: Sagas