The Sweetness of Tears: A Novel

by Nafisa Haji | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0061780103 Global Overview for this book
Registered by JDT of Pleasanton, California USA on 7/8/2013
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Journal Entry 1 by JDT from Pleasanton, California USA on Monday, July 8, 2013
When faith and facts collide, Jo March—a young woman born into an Evangelical Christian dynasty—wrestles with questions about who she is and how she fits into the weave of her faithful family. Chasing loose threads that she hopes will lead to the truth, Jo sets off on an unlikely quest across boundaries of language and religion, through chasms of sectarian divides in the Muslim world. Against the backdrop of the War on Terror—travelling from California to Chicago, Pakistan to Iraq—she delves deeply into the past, encountering relatives, often for the first time, whose histories are intricately intertwined with her own . . . only to learn that true spiritual devotion is a broken field riddled with doubt and that nothing is ever as it seems.

A story of forbidden love and familial dysfunction that interweaves multiple generational and cultural viewpoints, The Sweetness of Tears is a powerful reminder of the ties that bind us, the choices that divide us, and the universal joys and tragedies that shape us all.

Journal Entry 2 by JDT at Pleasanton, California USA on Wednesday, July 10, 2013
continuing this book's journey - sending to Mary in Arizona - her paperbackswap.com request.
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