Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam by Zainab Salbi, Laurie Becklund

Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam

Zainab Salbi, Laurie Becklund

293 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
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Zainab Salbi was eleven years old when her father was chosen to be Saddam Hussein's personal pilot and her family's life was grafted onto his. Her mother, the beautiful Alia, taught her daughter the skills she needed to survive. A plastic smile. S...

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challenging: 66%

dark: 66%

reflective: 66%

emotional: 33%


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