EAN: 9781526663474

AMERICAN MOTHER - COLUM MCCANN DIANE FOLEY KART...

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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