The Kurdish Bike A Novel [Paperback]

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. Befriended by a widow in a nearby village, Theresa is embroiled in the joys and agonies of traditional Kurds, especially the women who survived Saddams genocide only to be crippled by age-old restrictions, brutality and honor killings. Theresas 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.( The Kurdish Bike is gripping, tender, wry and compassionate  an eye-opener into little-known customs in one of the worlds most explosive regions  a novel of love, betrayal and redemption.