Kisses from a Distance
Kisses is an award winning literary memoir that follows the turn of the 20th Century American immigration experience to of two destitute Lebanese families. The tale begins in 1885 with the abduction of the author's grandmother from a remote Lebanese convent in the mountains of Lebanon, where she was taken into a marriage, for which she was ill-prepared and did not desire.
Filled with the drama of young men forced to leave home for a foreign land because of rampant poverty, and a series of natural disasters including a scourge of locusts, WWI, persecution, famine, and pestilence. Add in the uncertainty of going to a land where they knew not the language or customs, or whether they would ever see their families again.
Many readers, of various ethnicities, have said they couldn't put the book down, and were reminded of stories of their own ancestral experiences. Helen Thomas, of White House reportage fame, said, "It brought tears to my eyes...and is beautifully written."
The Kindle edition has many photographs that were not included in the print edition.
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