A story of deprivation, exploitation, and death set in MEXICO and SPAIN
American Chick in Saudi Arabia
Location(s): Saudi Arabia
Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
Era(s): Modern
It all begins with an ad in the newspaper. When Jean Sasson, a young Southern woman living in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, answers a call to work in the royal hospital in Saudi Arabia, what should have been a two-year stay turns into a life-changing adventure spanning over a decade. Over the years Jean is plunged into the hidden lives of the veiled women in Riyadh, where women are locked in luxurious homes and fundamentalist mutawas terrorize the streets. Jean meets women from all walks of life–a feisty bedouin, an educated mother, a conservative wife of a high-ranking Saudi, and a Saudi princess the world knows as Princess Sultana–all who open a window into Saudi culture and help to reshape Jean’s worldviews.
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