Description Taste the Sweetness Later: Two Muslim Women in America was informed by more than 200 hours of personal interviews, Author Connie Shoemaker shares the stories of two women living in the grip of murderous dictators.
Nisren, a Kurdish Iraqi whose childhood is plagued by Saddam Hussein's eyes that are watching is married to an interpreter for the U.
She escapes to America with her family after anti-US factions threaten to kill her husband.
Eman, a Libyan growing up in the shadow of madman Muammar Gaddafi, persists in her dream of higher education by fighting for a scholarship that will take her from her sheepherding family of 22 siblings to graduate study in the United States.
Nisren grows up and marries in Baghdad, Iraq, haunted by Saddam Hussain's eyes that are watching.
As a Kurdish woman, she suffers the poverty that results from the dictator's numerous forays into war, UN sanctions, and restrictions against the Kurds.
Soon after the U.
invades Iraq, her husband Raad is becomes an interpreter for the US Army.
As anti-U.
sentiment develops after the invasion, Raad's twin brother, also an interpreter, is assassinated.
The family is warned they are next, so they obtain a refugee visa to come to the United States.
While her husband works to support the family, Nisren learns English, enrolls the children in school, and, in spite of depression and PTSD, discovers the strength to defend her choice to wear her native dress in the face of the rude gestures and shouts of go home to your own country.
US citizenship is awarded to the whole family just in time for Nisren and Raad to vote in the 2016 presidential election.
Eman, a bright young Libyan woman, attacks all the obstacles that block the path to her goal of a scholarship to study in the United States.
In spite of cultural restrictions on women and loyalty to her family, she persists with guidance from her grandmother's words: Swallow it now, and taste the sweetness later.
After a six-year.
| Later | Two |
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| In spite of cultural restrictions on women and loyalty to her family, she persists with guidance from her grandmother's words | Swallow it now and taste the sweetness later |
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