Gold Medal, Best Regional Fiction, Independent Publishers Book Awards 2017

First Prize, North Street Book Contest 2017

Best Cultural Fiction, Readers' Favorites Book Awards (bronze) 2018

"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 Saddam's genocide only to be crippled by age-old restrictions, brutality and honor killings. Theresa's 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.


Based on true events, The Kurdish Bike is gripping, tender, wry and compassionate - an eye-opener into little-known customs in one of the world's most explosive regions - a novel of love, betrayal and redemption. San Francisco Book Review gave the book five stars and compared it to The Kite Runner. The Manhattan Book Review also gave it five stars, and called it a "must-read" for anyone interested in the Middle East.

Highly recommended for book clubs. Contact author to request a Skype presentation to your book club.

Formato	Tapa suave
Número de Páginas	324
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	Alesa Lightbourne
Fecha de Publicación	2016-07-19
Dimensiones	8.1" x 4.9" x 0.9" pulgadas
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	No
Temas	Femenino

Lightbourne, Alesa

Alesa Lightbourne has been a professor and teacher in six countries, including Kurdish Iraq, where she taught in 2010. She earned her MFA in creative writing from University of Washington, and ran a corporate writing firm for 20 years. She lives near Monterey Bay in California, and loves to boogie board and (of course) ride a bicycle.