Alesa is a prize-winning author who has lived and worked in six countries. to speak to us about her book The Kurdish Bike. 26 at 8:00 PM EST for a slide show and Q&A with the author. Alesa Lightbourne will visit the Porter Memorial Library on Wednesday, March 14 at 10:30 a.m. Together Women Rise, a national organization, has selected The Kurdish Bike as its next Big Read. Thanks to the loyal readers around the world who made this happen! Also, the book has been translated into Sorani Kurdish, Farsi, Arabic and Kurmanji Kurdish. For comparison, the average published book sells 3,000, and most self-published books sell only 250. Milestone: Sales of The Kurdish Bike are nearing 40,000. Gold Medal, Best Regional Fiction, Independent Publishers Book Contestįirst Place, Best Book of the Year, North Street Book Awardsīronze Medal, Best Cultural Fiction, Readers’ Favorites 2018įeatured on: Kurd Connection VOA, Voice of America TV, NBC, ABC, Bosphorus Review of Books Rated five stars by both the San Francisco and Manhattan Book Reviews, and called a must-read for anyone interested in the Middle East, this provocative and heart-warming novel is a popular selection of book clubs around the country.

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 follows an American teacher’s adventures in northern Iraq, and chronicles her cultural challenges among village women who were brutalized by Saddam Hussein’s regime. 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.

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