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My book the hostages daughter, a memoir and investigation of my father terry andersons sevenyear captivity by terrorists in lebanon, was published by harpercollins on october 4, 2016. I write as a daughter of john graves, one of the americans held hostage in tehran. Powerful and eyeopening the hostages daughter is essential reading for anyone interested in international relations, this violent, haunted region, and americas role in its fate. A story of family, madness, and the middle east sulome anderson. The hostages daughter hardcover a story of family, madness, and the middle east. A story of family, madness and the middle east, by sulome anderson, takes an intimate look at the effect of the lebanese hostage crisis on andersons family, the united. The lebanese hostage crisis of the 80s and 90s consumed the nation, but had a far more personal and lingering effect on sulome anderson. A story of family, madness, and the middle east by.
T he hostages daughter won a nonfiction authors association book award, two international book awards and has been optioned for film. Sulome tells moving stories from her experiences as a reporter in the region and challenges our understanding of global politics, the forces that spawn terrorism and especially lebanon, the. The hostages daughter a story of family, madness, and the middle east by sulome anderson 272 pp. Terry andersons daughter investigates his 1985 kidnapping. The hostages daughter audiobook, written by sulome. After a quarter century, the daughter of the longestheld american hostage during lebanons civil war says. In this gripping blend of reportage, memoir, and analysis, a journalist and daughter of one of the worlds most famous hostages, terry anderson, takes an intimate look at her fathers captivity during the lebanese hostage crisis and the ensuing political firestorm on both her family and the united statesas well as the farreaching implications of those events on middle. In the book, sulome takes an intimate look at the kidnapping of her father, journalist terry anderson, and his seven years in captivity during the lebanon hostage crisis. Sulome anderson the hostages daughter is an intimate look at the effect of the lebanese hostage crisis on andersons family, the united states, and the middle east today. In 1985, shiite militia in lebanon kidnapped associated press reporter terry anderson and held him hostage for the next six years. Nprs rachel martin talks to sulome anderson about her memoir, the hostages daughter. The daughter of exhostage terry anderson encounters her.
Going beyond the headlines, this intensely personal story of his kidnapping and return tells a deeper, darker, and far more intimate account of what happens when a fatherdaughter relationship. Sulome anderson is a journalist based between new york city and beirut, lebanon. Her recently published book, the hostages daughter, chronicles what happened after she met her father for the first time, at age 6, after his release from his long imprisonment. In the hostages daughter, sulome anderson investigates the. In the hostages daughter, sulome anderson presents a gripping blend of reportage, memoir, and analysis.
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