The Author's Afterward is a must read as the author briefly explains important events that transpired during her time there. It was not pertinent to the story of her life with Kurds and it took away from the culture of the book.Īlthough fictitious, this work is based upon the author’s time and experiences in Kurdish Iraq.
At moments throughout her account in Iraq, she has moments of pining for her old life with her husband, and recounts details in her divorce often. I did not care for her anecdotal divorce history. So, it is only after her divorce that Theresa signs up to teach abroad in Iraq. As a teacher in this foreign land, her career is tested, and character threatened. Her local friends are not always making the best decisions, and Theresa must watch as they reap the consequences. Theresa seeks to help her new friend but understands she must respect the rules of her friend’s home and as an American woman has a hard time swallowing what she must accept. To her surprise, she experiences but a small taste of the caste system primarily through a Kurdish woman that she becomes friends with. It takes Theresa a while to adapt to the new environment and culture, but after purchasing a bike she is able to acclimate more rapidly. On her journey, she immerses the readers into the Kurdish culture. Although entering Iraq as a teacher, Theresa leaves having learned more than expected. 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.The Kurdish Bike is the narrative account of an American teacher’s journey to Kurdish Iraq. 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. 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. “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.
This provocative and heart-warming novel, based on a true story, follows an American teacher whose values are challenged in an Iraqi village in 2010. You can read this before The Kurdish Bike PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Kurdish Bike written by Alesa Lightbourne which was published in 2016–. Brief Summary of Book: The Kurdish Bike by Alesa Lightbourne
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