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Abbey's Search for Sanctuary Kindle Edition

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Abbey’s Search for Sanctuary, Stand-alone Book One of Destiny: Choice or Chance Trilogy: A riveting story of violence against women, including baby girls, and those who fight to protect them.

A Turkish-American nurse, Abbey shelters her younger sister after she divorces her Muslim husband when she learns his mother is going to perform a circumcision on their baby girl, Jenny. When her sister is murdered by her ex-husband, Abbey knows she must find a way to keep Jenny safe.

Once a Peshmerga fighter and medic with the Kurdish forces in Iraq, Rami now works with refugees in Buffalo. Shunned by his grandfather and family for failing to demand retribution when his arranged marriage failed, Rami avoids emotional attachments. That is, until he meets Abbey.

Warning Abbey that honor killings are often family affairs and that she and Jenny are in danger, Rami offers her a way out: a marriage of convenience and refuge in his homeland of Kurdistan.

Abbey is committed to doing anything to protect Jenny but can she face going back to the world of her childhood: a world of headscarves and submission, a world that scarred her mother and killed her sister, a world she’d already escaped once?

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B06XDSX195
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 15, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1725 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 190 pages

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Eris left Vermont to study nursing in Albany, New York where she met her future husband, a surgical intern from Istanbul, Turkey. Eris’ first publications were a biographical novel, Legacy of Change: The Saga of a Turkish Family from Empire to Republic, that she co-authored with her late husband and a textbook, Psychiatric Advanced Practice Nursing. Now, she writes what she loves to read--contemporary, cross cultural romances.

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Susan E. Jacobson

Refugee resettlement, cross cultural love, history, mental health: a tastey treat

Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2017

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Abbey’s Search for Sanctuary is 4th novel and first in a trilogy by Eris Field, emeritus professor of psychiatric nursing. Protagonist Abbey Aksoy steps into her first employment as a recent graduate of a doctor of nursing practice program, a psychiatric nurse practitioner. Eris Field knows how to describe personalities. The tension in Abbey's new practice with the other team members is particularly fascinating. It was plausible. Abbey lived in Turkey for several years as a child. The head of the clinic where she is employed is of Kurdish background. The book takes off from there. I recommend this book for policy makers, to gain insight into the role of mental health in international health arenas. I recommend this book for those interested in the intricacies of international relations. Eris has a demonstrated knowledge of the Middle East. We get a lesson in history and culture.. 5,000 years BC the Kurds were making wine! We can anticipate Abbey developing a nurse practitioner program is a Kurdistan. I look forward to the next books. Bravo Eris you have done it again.

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jessica smith

Ending is too rushed

Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2017

This is a story of love and redemption; it deals with very complex subject matters such as religion, customary traditions, the acts of rebelling against those, loss, and redeeming oneself in the eye of the public. From reading the blurb about the book I was really looking forward to reading it since it seemed a unique since it told a different side, one not often touched on, of the Muslim religion and the negative culture and customs of the Middle East and the diversity of cultures in this area. I will say just based on these items the book is very good. I did enjoy how the author was able to explain the differences between cultures, such as Egyptian Muslims versus Kurdish Muslims versus Turks and so on. I did learn a lot, and I also really like that the main character was American, since this character asked those questions that most Americans do have misconceptions on.
The overall storyline though I felt was lacking, it lagged in the wrong places and in the parts that should have been explained more were rushed. The beginning of this book, really the first half was written great, it got a little preachy in places with the subject of genital mutilation was brought up, the same information on this subject was brought up many time, to me it was too much, because you only have to be told once maybe at most twice that this practice is not in the Koran and was outlawed in 2011, for that to get through but no this was brought up much more, by multiple characters. The same thing can be said for the clarification of Kurdish Muslims and how they view women versus other types of Muslims. At the halfway mark something VERY shocking happens which takes the story on a new path that I felt was too rushed, this is the section where our main character meets her romantic partner and with romance you have to build it properly for it to be believable and to be I felt in this half of the book this was not done so the romance suffered, and being that the was one of the main points of the book kind of made the whole book suffer.
So in conclusion I would rate this book a 3 out of 5, it was not awful but I wish there had been changes to the storyline to make it flow more consistently and if so it would be a fantastic books since the subjects featured are really good subjects.

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Mandy

The story offers a good dose of Middle Eastern history

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2017

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An emeritus professor of psychiatric nursing, author Eris Field weaves a fascinating romance with her fourth novel. The heroine is a Turkish-American woman just starting out in her first job as a psychiatric nurse practitioner in Buffalo, New York. The hero is the Kurdish head of the clinic where she is employed, a former Peshmerga fighter and medic who now secretly helps refugees. The story offers a good dose of Middle Eastern history, and takes in violence against women, the brutal conventions of some Middle Eastern cultures and the need for mental health services in those countries. It does, however, you will be happy to know, have a happy ending.

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adrian bernard churchward

An education for me

Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2017

The story line has been competently and adequately explained in the other reviews without spoilers, so I won't repeat it. But it's not only the story line that's interesting and, at times, heartrending; it's the information about the cultural differences between the Kurds, Turks and Arabs. The less-informed of us in the West often tend to lump these Middle Eastern cultures together: "they're all the same". This book makes it clear that they can be very different.

At times I thought I was reading a cultural and geographical review on Trip Advisor, such was the amount of information the author imparted. However, I commend the writing style because this information added to, rather than inhibited, the narrative flow. It helped to create an undiscovered world for me as the reader; a world I want to know more about.

My only slight concern is that on occasions the dialogue reads/sounds like the speaker is reading from a pre-prepared text. Whilst it delivers welcome information for the reader, I wonder if the characters would speak that way, as educated as they clearly are.

That said, my concern is not enough for me to give this book anything other than 5*.

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adrian bernard churchward

A welcome education for me

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 24, 2017

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The story line has been competently and adequately explained in the other reviews without spoilers, so I won't repeat it. But it's not only the story line that's interesting and, at times, heartrending; it's the information about the cultural differences between the Kurds, Turks and Arabs. The less-informed of us in the West often tend to lump these Middle Eastern cultures together: "they're all the same". This book makes it clear that they can be very different.

At times I thought I was reading a cultural and geographical review on Trip Advisor, such was the amount of information the author imparted. However, I commend the writing style because this information added to, rather than inhibited, the narrative flow. It helped to create an undiscovered world for me as the reader; a world I want to know more about.

My only slight concern is that on occasions the dialogue reads/sounds like the speaker is reading from a pre-prepared text. Whilst it delivers welcome information for the reader, I wonder if the characters would speak that way, as educated as they clearly are.

That said, my concern is not enough for me to give this book anything other than 5*.

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