Not Without My Daughter

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They also faced familial challenges: Moody's sister, Ameh Bozorg, (literally "great aunt"), who was their host, viewed Betty with contempt, simply for being an American and holding to American ideals. At the time, my dad was living and working in Mexico as a surgeon, which meant that every other weekend found my brother and I listlessly cooped up in my dad’s clinic in Zaragoza, a very poor community on the outskirts of Juarez. Most of the critical reviews of this book claim that Mahmoody is racist, intolerant of Islamic culture, and a liar.

I know I'm probably going to get a huge backlash for saying that but I just could not empathize with the author.From Balochistan's largest city, Quetta, they would be flown to the port city of Karachi in the Sindh province and transit back to America. It’s still as shocking today as it was all those years ago, and while the story reads like a thriller and I found myself rooting for Betty and her daughter you have to remind yourself that this nightmare was Betty’s reality at the time and certainly no thriller for her.

Finding Mathob's account was much easier because it was available through various libraries; however, I had to actually purchase Betty's account because I was not as fortunate.If that weren't reason enough, Mahmoody had a proven agenda in writing this book with Hoffer, and the fact that it was published in the United States so soon after the hostage crisis, when public opinion was already so turned against Iran, also points to a monetary agenda as well as a political one. I’m not saying there were happy times or good times she skipped, but condensing the bad parts down and putting a hateful voice behind it is going to end in a very dark book with a strong bias. Might becoming a public figure and an emblem for social and legal justice have been a protective measure? It was a scary time to be a six-year-old, so my mom taught us how to memorize landmarks and phone numbers, even directions on how to get back to the international bridge, and what to tell authorities if my dad ever got a fit of the crazies.

Item despatched quickly and as described, but damaged in transit due to plastic wrap packaging being inadequate protection. Remember also, the people are just like us, but it's their government that has the guns and unfortunately, the fanatical people run the government.I was also fascinated by the follow-up, For Love of a Child, where she tells some of the stories of people who contacted her after her story was made public. Betty tried to get help from Moody's family, but they approved of Moody's actions and refused to help.

Sally Fields’s and Alfred Molina’s brilliant portrayals notwithstanding, as is often the case, the film adaptation of this story is an abridged and sanitized account, a faded husk of the tale you will encounter in the pages of this book. On January 31, the smugglers drove Betty and Mahtob to a small village beyond Tabriz, where they spent the night.She’s seen unhappy Mahtob is with that life already and refuses to subject her daughter to more pain and misery. There aren't enough words to describe the suffering and heartache of the human condition in Not Without My Daughter. What I have said in another review about Mahtob's book is that she focuses very little on the actual stay and journey out of Tehran after being held captive by her father and it read more like a documented therapeutic account that I'm sure she remains traumatized to this day, even though her father died years ago.