The Red Sea Bride

by Sylvia Fowler

Overview

At a school on the Pacific Ocean, Sylvia met and fell hopelessly in love with a devastating young Saudi man. He married her and took her to Jeddah, a five thousand year-old city on the Red Sea, nicknamed "The Red Sea Bride" by its inhabitants. Nothing in all Sylvia's youthful freedoms or spiritual pursuits prepared her for the exotic, beautiful, and ultimately tumultuous life that met her there--as it did so many other Western women who had made the same romantic choice, to marry a Saudi. Sylvia tells not just her own story but those of friends as well as of Saudi women she came to love as fiercely as her own mother and grandmother. Here is a tale of the passionate human heart and the amazing choices some young independent women make to follow it.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940157390419
Publisher:	Grassroots Writers Guild
Publication date:	03/16/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Sylvia Fowler's memoir was reviewed by the late American blogger Carol Fleming Ajroush, who was a CIA agent when she herself fell in love with a Saudi diplomat, married him and moved, like Sylvia, to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Carol's blog was called American Bedu and had over five million visitors.

Carol writes that in the 1980s, Sylva "found herself a young mother and new wife living in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. This was before the internet was readily available in Saudi Arabia. This was before it was natural for most homes to have satellite TV. Sylvia found herself in a new land with a new husband, where everyone spoke a language she did not understand.

"Sylvia shares her experiences of starting out married life in the same building where her mother-in-law and other extended family members lived. She describes in heartfelt detail the challenges of raising a son who is different from his cousins because he has lighter skin and does not speak the language.

"Sylvia spent nearly twenty years in the port city of Jeddah. During this period she raises her children, grows apart from her husband and integrates herself into her Saudi family. She shares her downfalls and her triumphs. She educates the reader of Saudi customs and traditions that only someone within the circle of a Saudi family can know.

"The Red Sea Bride is complete with pictures is complete with pictures of Sylvia. It is a must-read for any woman considering marrying a Saudi man and making a life with him in Saudi Arabia."

Editorial Reviews

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