Friday Recommends #2

Friday Recommends #2

Friday Recommends is a weekly meme hosted by Pen to Paper. This a weekly book blog hop where we as bloggers choose a book that we have read and recommend it to our fellow bloggers. We can then visit each others blogs to see what other bloggers recommend and find new books to add to our TBR list. Hopfully we all will have new followers from visiting each blog on the linky list.

The rules for Friday Recommends are:

• Follow Pen to Paper as host of the meme.
• Please consider adding the blog hop button to your blog somewhere, so others can find it easily and join in too! Help spread the word! The code will be at the bottom of the post under the linky.
• Pick a book that you've read, and have enjoyed enough to recommend to other readers. It can be a book you've read recently, or a book you read years ago - it's up to you - but make sure you tell us why you love the book (like a mini review). You make the post as long or as short as you like.
• Add your blog to the linky at the bottom of post on host site Pen to Paper after posting your blog post.
• Put a link back to pen to paper (http://vogue-pentopaper.blogspot.com) somewhere in your post.
• Visit the other blogs and enjoy!

My Recommed for this week:



Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody, William Hoffer

Goodreads synopsis:

In August 1984, Michigan housewife Betty Mahmoody accompanied her husband to his native Iran for a two-week vacation. To her horror, she found herself and her four-year-old daughter, Mahtob, virtual prisoners of a man rededicated to his Shiite Moslem faith, in a land where women are near-slaves and Americans are despised. Their only hope for escape lay in a dangerous underground that would not take her child..

Now the true story of this courageous woman and her breathtaking odyssey bursts upon the screen in the Pathe Entertainment production starring Academy Award-winner Sally Field!

My Thoughts

Betty Mahmoody and her 4 year old daughter Mahtob went with her husband Moody to Iran to visit his family in a time of war. Her husband took her passport and would not let her return to America. Over time he became violent with Betty and Mahtob. He held Betty prisoner in his families home and then in another family members home.

When she finaIly convinced him that he could trust her again and was allowed to go to town she found a man that let her use the phone so she could call her family in America. Betty could have divorced her husband and left Iran but in Iran the man had soul custody of the child and the woman had no say what so ever. So she had to find a way to leave with Mahtob. She found this group of people that could help them escape together . They went to Turkey and the back to America and to the American Embassy.

I really enjoyed this book a lot and after all these years since I read it I still think about it a lot. Betty was a brave and loving woman to go through what she did to save her child. There are some women /mothers out there that would have divorced their husband and left their child there.

Have you read Not Without My Daughter? What did you think?

If you are a new follower leave a comment below so that I will know and can follow you back. Also leave a link to your Friday Recomend so that I can visit you and see what you picked.