Not Without My Daughteris the true story of a courageous mother and her breathtaking odyssey, now a major motion picture starring Academy Award-winner Sally Field!
In August 1984, Michigan housewife Betty Mahmoody accompanied her husband to his native Iran for a two-week vacation. To her horror, she found herself and her four-year-old daughter, Mahtob, virtual prisoners of a man rededicated to his Shiite Moslem faith, in a land where women are near-slaves and Americans are despised. Their only hope for escape lay in a dangerous underground that would not take her child...
Not Without My Daughteris a Literary Guild Alternate Selection.
Betty Mahmoodyis an author and public speaker, best known for her book
Not Without My Daughter, the basis of the film by the same name.
Spellbinding! Cleveland Plain Dealer
Readers will cheer...good adventure with a happy ending. Washington Post Book World
Intense...compelling reading. Detroit Free Press
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