The Story
The daughter at the center of the international bestseller Not Without My Daughter completes her story: escaping from Iran, growing up in fear, battling deadly disease, and learning to forgive.Two decades ago, millions of readers worldwide thrilled to the story told in the international bestseller Not Without My Daughtersubsequently made into a film starring Sally Fieldthat told of an American mother and her sixyearold childs daring escape from an abusive and tyrannical Iranian husband and father. Now the daughter returns to tell the whole story, not only of that imprisonment and escape but of life after fleeing Tehran: living in fear of reabduction, enduring recurring nightmares and panic attacks, attending school under a false name, battling lifethreatening illnessall under the menacing shadow of her father.This is the story of an extraordinary young womans triumph over lifecrushing trauma to build a life of peace and forgiveness. Taking readers from Michigan to Iran and from Ankara, Turkey, to Paris, France, My Name Is Mahtob depicts the profound resilience of a wounded soul healed by faith in Gods goodness and in his care and love. And Mahmoody reveals the secret of how she liberated herself from a life of fear, learning to forgive the father who had shattered her life and discovering joy and peace that comes from doing so.
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The daughter at the center of the international bestseller Not Without My Daughter completes her story: escaping from Iran, growing up in fear, battling deadly disease, and learning to forgive.Two decades ago, millions of readers worldwide thrilled to the story told in the international bestseller Not Without My Daughtersubsequently made into a film starring Sally Fieldthat told of an American mother and her sixyearold childs daring escape from an abusive and tyrannical Iranian husband and father. Now the daughter returns to tell the whole story, not only of that imprisonment and escape but of life after fleeing Tehran: living in fear of reabduction, enduring recurring nightmares and panic attacks, attending school under a false name, battling lifethreatening illnessall under the menacing shadow of her father.This is the story of an extraordinary young womans triumph over lifecrushing trauma to build a life of peace and forgiveness. Taking readers from Michigan to Iran and from Ankara, Turkey, to Paris, France, My Name Is Mahtob depicts the profound resilience of a wounded soul healed by faith in Gods goodness and in his care and love. And Mahmoody reveals the secret of how she liberated herself from a life of fear, learning to forgive the father who had shattered her life and discovering joy and peace that comes from doing so.
