A Tender Struggle: Story of a Marriage (Previously Titled My Accidental Jihad)
Krista Bremer
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
"A story about love, marriage, compromise, parenthood and the difference between the life one imagined and reality."* Fifteen years ago, Krista Bremer, a California-bred feminist, surfer, and aspiring journalist, met Ismail Suayah, sincere, passionate, kind, yet from a very different world. One of eight siblings born in an impoverished fishing village in Libya, Ismail was raised a Muslim--and his faith informed his life. When Krista and Ismail made the decision to become a family, she embarked on a journey she never could have imagined, an accidental jihad: a quest for spiritual and intellectual growth that would open her mind and, more important, her heart. "A bold piece of writing (and thinking) by an incredibly brave woman." --Elizabeth Gilbert, author of The Signature of All Things "A moving, lyrical memoir."--Kirkus Reviews "Candid and rich." --Good Housekeeping "Unrelenting candor and gorgeous prose." --BookPage "Krista Bremer has a very good story." --The New York Times Book Review "A beautiful account of [Krista's] jihad, or struggle, to find peace within herself and within her marriage." --The Kansas City Star "Lucid, heartfelt, and profoundly humane . . . Navigates the boundaries of religion and politics to arrive at the universal experience of love." --G. Willow Wilson, author of Alif the Unseen "This is a memoir worth reading." --*Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Product Details
Price
$15.95
$14.83
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Publish Date
March 31, 2015
Pages
304
Dimensions
5.4 X 8.2 X 0.9 inches | 0.7 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781616204495
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About the Author
Krista Bremer is the associate publisher of the Sun magazine and the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award. Her essay on which My Accidental Jihad is based received a Pushcart Prize. Her essays have been published in More, the Sun, and O, The Oprah Magazine, and she's been featured on NPR and in the PBS series Arab American Stories.
Reviews
"My Accidental Jihad is a bold piece of writing (and thinking) by an incredibly brave woman." --Elizabeth Gilbert, author of The Signature of All Things and Eat, Pray, Love
"Utterly absorbing . . . A beautiful book." --Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild "Candid and rich." --Good Housekeeping "Lucid, heartfelt and profoundly humane, My Accidental Jihad navigates the boundaries of religion and politics to arrive at the universal experience of love." --G. Willow Wilson, author of Alif the Unseen "A beautiful account of [Bremer's] jihad, or struggle, to find peace within herself and within her marriage." --The Kansas City Star "Readers of memoir will welcome this love story about patience and kindness and learning the importance of putting culture first." --Library Journal "A moving, lyrical memoir . . . A sweet and rewarding journey of a book." --Kirkus Reviews "Told with rare honesty, My Accidental Jihad is the story of Krista Bremer's lifelong quest for insight and understanding, a search that leads her out of the Pacific surf to journalism school in North Carolina and through the complex challenges and unexpected joys of a cross-cultural marriage and family. This book is a powerfully personal account of the courage and hard work necessary to open one's heart and keep it that way." --Maggie Shipstead, author of Seating Arrangements "My Accidental Jihad is one of the most captivating and moving memoirs I've read in years. The story Krista Bremer tells--one of radical foreignness between a married couple--could be a metaphor for all committed relationships." --Haven Kimmel, author of A Girl Named Zippy
