This is one of the 2 books I finished on vacation at the end of July but finally getting around to logging it in. This lady was married to one of Osama Bin Laden's older brothers. There are I think 54 kids--dad was married multiple wives & divorces, etc all in this. The book was written after 9/11 and the connection to Osama certainly made it newsworthy and sold copies but just as interesting was her life in Saudi Arabia and how she was lucky enough to get out with her children and get divorced away from there. Since the dad/man has all the power, she likely would not have been able to take her girls out of the country & they would have remained and eventually married off. Just crazy that it goes on and really only very slowly changing. I guess since guys in power & most women in country know that from day they were born, not much of a fight for rights going on. Really interesting read about the country and the family.
I have mentioned this to some others and they might be interested in reading it so keeping it for now.
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