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Review: In Beneath The Same Heaven, A Heart-Wrenching Decision Destroys A Multicultural Family 0
- BOOK REVIEWS
- July 20, 2018
Summary: In a Dubai nightclub, a blond American journalist named Kathryn meets Rashid Siddique, a darkly handsome Pakistani man. Each is looking to step out of the proscribed boundaries of their lives. As their lives and passions rapidly interweave, they try on each other’s customs to see how well they fit. After Kathryn experiences fasting
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Review: Beneath The Same Heaven, A Powerful Literary Piece 0
- BOOK REVIEWS
- May 8, 2018
The initial story of American woman Kathryn (who marries Pakistani Muslim man Rashid) and their two children at first seems to mirror the nonfiction story of Not Without My Daughter, an account of an American woman’s involvement with an Iranian man which leads to her entrapment in the Middle East. But Beneath the Same Heaven:
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Read An Excerpt From Beneath The Same Heaven: A Novel 0
- EXCERPTS
- April 24, 2018
Beneath the Same Heaven: A Novel by Anne Marie Ruff is about Kathryn, an American woman, and Rashid, a Pakistani-born Muslim man, who seem to have bridged the divide between Western and Islamic world views with their marriage and two American-born children. But everything changes when Rashid’s father is suddenly killed by a US drone
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Interview With Anne Marie Ruff, Author Of Beneath The Same Heaven 0
- INTERVIEWS
- April 11, 2018
Anne Marie Ruff talks with Book Glow about the writing of her novel, Beneath the Same Heaven. With candor, beauty, and unusual insight, the novel reveals how decent people can justify horrific acts. The book is available from Amazon and Open Books Direct. Describe Beneath the Same Heaven in one sentence. This cross-cultural love story follows
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4 Novels Featuring Cross-Cultural Romances 0
- BOOK LISTS, BOOKS & LOVE
- February 5, 2018
These 4 novels featuring cross-cultural romances prove love has no boundaries. 1. The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer “When Julie Summers’s car breaks down on a street in Cape Town, a young Arab mechanic comes to her aid. Their attraction to each other is immediate. Julia, the daughter of a powerful businessman, is trying to escape
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8 Novels About Terrorism 0
- BOOK LISTS
- January 12, 2018
These 8 novels about terrorism go beyond attention-grabbing headlines and sound bites. 1. Terrorist by John Updike “The terrorist of John Updike’s title is eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, the son of an Irish American mother and an Egyptian father who disappeared when he was three. Devoted to Allah and to the Qur’an as expounded by
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