The Red Sea Bride: A Western Woman’s Journey Through Cross-Cultural Marriage in Jeddah

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What happens when a Western woman trades the familiar for the ancient streets of Jeddah? The Red Sea Bride is an intimate look at the beauty and complexity of a cross-cultural marriage on the shores of Saudi Arabia. . . . At a school on the Pacific Ocean, 18-year-old Sylvia falls in love with a devastating young Saudi man. Obtaining two college degrees, she marries him and goes to his five-thousand-year-old city, Jeddah, situated by the Red Sea. There she loses all rights: to work with pay, to walk on the street or to have a telephone. Her college degrees are valueless in the eyes of the Saudi government. When she gives her husband money to buy a piece of land, the deed is in his name and she is barred inheritance. Duped into working at King Abdul Aziz University, she is refused a salary. Love struggles in this magical world of the seen and the unseen, where jinn and angels are as palpable as the sand of the desert. Sylvia merges into a coterie of Western women married to Saudis, all of whom rely on their hearts and wits to keep an even keel. The author tells not just her own story, but those of her friends as well as of Saudi women she came to love as fiercely as her own mother and grandmother. Here is a tale of the passionate human heart and the choices some women make to follow it.
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01MUJZPRG
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Grassroots Writers’ Guild
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 6, 2017
Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 6.1 MB
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 289 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0998177502
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #1,437,584 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #115 in Women in Islam (Kindle Store) #420 in Women in Islam (Books)
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