A Bullet Between The Eyes

Life isn’t easy for anybody in Palestine- especially if you’re an Arab, even less so if you’re a Christian, and least of all if you’re a woman.

Sana’s story tells a fascinating and moving tale of how one determined woman created a good life for herself and her children anyway in this mysterious and demanding world.  How she coped with an abusive, alcoholic husband, from a criminal family- in a land where the rule of law is frail and the law of the clan is paramount.  How she survived and succeeded in a closed society- and ultimately escaped, by the skin of her teeth, to seek a new life in the USA.

It is a true tale of triumph of love and wit, in a world where cruelty and stupidity all too often seem to have the upper hand.

Told in brisk swift, plain English, the tale of the lead character Sana’s life, A Bullet Between The Eyes, unlocks a door to the turbulent Middle East for the average American reader.  You will learn about everyday life on the center stage of world politics; and it may not always be what you think!  Its loves, hopes and dreams are much like ours, but the challenges its people face can be dauntingly different.

A Bullet Between The Eyes will speak to millions of readers interested in women’s empowerment and the struggle against abuse.  Its language is accessible and suitable for a young adult readership. 

This autobiographical novel will also touch millions of Americas who are interested in the turbulent and complex societies of the Middle East, where so much news is breaking today.  The author, a Palestinian- American, brings a perspective on her homeland that is fresh to most Americans: a rare view of Palestinian life from the inside.  But there are also 3.5 million Arab-Americas today, a growing marker that rewards attention.

A Bullet To The Eyes is a living testimony from an age-old Christen community now in the crosshairs of violent revolutions.  Christin readers, both Evangelical and Catholic, will thrill to a tale of the survival of their faith’s core values in the same fractious, violent landscape-even the exact same town- where 2,000 years ago Jesus Christ was born.

In the end, it is a gripping, swift-moving retelling of a great old story: the American dream.