EAN: 9781526663474

AMERICAN MOTHER - COLUM MCCANN DIANE FOLEY KART...

'An extraordinary story of grace  forgiveness and moral courage' Patrick Radden Keefe   A 2024
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AWARDS AN IMMEDIATE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER   The English language has no specific word for
the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan  widow and widower  but there is
no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss.  It has been eleven years since
Diane Foley's son  the American journalist James Foley  was kidnapped in northern Syria  and
nearly ten since that day in August 2014 when she would learn that he had been murdered by ISIS
in a public beheading that would ricochet in video around the world. A whole decade. Time
rushes past. And yet  for Diane  that moment is unending.   In American Mother   legendary
author Colum McCann tells Diane's story as she recalls the months of his captivity  the efforts
made to bring him home and the days following his death  in which Diane came face to face with
one of the men responsible for her son's kidnapping and torture. A testament to the power of
radical empathy and moral courage   American Mother takes us inside one woman's extraordinary
journey to find connection in a world torn asunder  and to fight for others as a way to keep
her son's memory alive.

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