My Name is Mahtob
The Story that Began in the Global Phenomenon Not Without My Daughter Continues
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4.3 • 14 Ratings
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
Two decades ago, Not Without My Daughter (a global phenomenon made into a film starring Sally Field) told of the daring escape of an American mother and her six-year-old child from an abusive and fanatical Iranian husband and father. Now the daughter tells the whole story, not only of her imprisonment and escape but of life after fleeing Iran: living in fear of re-abduction, battling recurring nightmares and panic attacks, taking on an assumed name, surviving life-threatening illness-all under the menacing shadow of her father.
This is the story of an extraordinary young woman's triumph over life-crushing trauma to build a life of peace and forgiveness. Moving from Michigan to Tehran, from Ankara to Paris, Mahtob reveals the profound resilience of a wounded soul healed by her faith in God's goodness and his care and love for her
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Not Without My Daughter, Betty Mahmoody's bestselling book from 1987, detailed domestic abuse within her Iranian-American family, focusing particularly on the kidnapping carried out by her husband and the subsequent custody battle for her daughter, Mahtob Mahmoody, who was then five years old. In this follow-up memoir, Mahmoody tells her side of the story, from her early childhood memories of Iran and her father's abuse, to her later childhood and adolescence in the U.S. As a teen, she supported her mother's activism, feared her father's potential return, and found religion. In Mahmoody's telling, surviving her difficult childhood with her Christian faith and supportive family enabled her to grow into a wise and compassionate adult. It is a story of grace and forgiveness a touching endnote for those who followed her mother's story. However, after the initial drama of her time as a child hostage in Iran, much of the book details a relatively ordinary adolescence in the Midwest, and Mahmoody's writing, straightforward and devoid of luster, is not strong enough to carry the work as a standalone account for those not already invested in the story.
