Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781982151317
- Book Title
- American Girls : One Woman’s Journey Into the Islamic State and Her Sister’s Fight to Bring Her Home
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Author
- Jessica Roy
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Women, Abuse / General, Terrorism, Sociology / General
- Item Weight
- 18 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
- Country of Origin
- United States
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
1982151315
ISBN-13
9781982151317
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8061244536
Product Key Features
Book Title
American Girls : One Woman’s Journey Into the Islamic State and Her Sister’s Fight to Bring Her Home
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women, Abuse / General, Terrorism, Sociology / General
Publication Year
2024
Genre
Family & Relationships, Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
18 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2023-011337
Reviews
“[ American Girls ] uses incisive, on-the-ground reporting to explore how, even through experiences with abusive partners, poverty, and religious extremism, it’s the bond of sisterhood that is perhaps most complicated of all.” –Elle Magazine “A gripping read.” –CNN Entertaiment “The narrative at the heart of Jessica Roy’s American Girls is so remarkable it could have been scripted for Hollywood…[Roy] leans into the inherent drama of her tale, crafting American Girls as a stranger-than-fiction thriller.” –New York Times Book Review “Journalist Jessica Roy pulls us into a complicated and ultimately inspiring story about abuse, radicalization, and sisterhood… Thoughtful and poignant, American Girls ponders the effects of violence and extremism – in all its shapes, forms, and origins.” –Apple Books ” American Girls provides a rare look inside ISIS, which remains one of the most mysterious–and misunderstood–extremist ideologies of the early 21st century.” –NY Post “A true and wrenching story of two sisters from Arkansas that pairs thought-provoking commentary with the drama and suspense of a novel.” –Town & Country, ” American Girls is a riveting family love story: aching to find each other and a stable home, two traumatized sisters vault first into the arms of terrible men and from there into ISIS and existential, worldwide conflict. Lori and Sam are still lingering in my mind–and even more so, the larger context Roy has revealed with their story: the straight line between relationship violence and global terrorism; the riptide of trauma that has tugged the line of history so far out to sea. This book might read like a novel, but in reality it’s a true, game-changing contribution to 21st century political analysis.” –Taylor Lorenz, author of Extremely Online “As brilliantly told by Jessica Roy, the story of Samantha Sally and her sister Lori is as dramatic as a Hollywood script. But at its heart, this is a moving and universal portrait of sibling rivalry and sibling loyalty that will resonate with every reader.” –Nina Garcia, Editor-in-Chief, ELLE
Synopsis
Named a Best Book of the Year by Elle A CNN, NPR, and Today Most-Anticipated Book of 2024 A “gripping” (CNN), true account of religious extremism, radicalization, and the bonds of family: the story of an American woman who traveled to ISIS-controlled Syria with her two children and extremist husband and the sister back home who worked tirelessly to help her escape. Raised in a restrictive Jehovah’s Witness community in Arkansas, sisters Lori and Sam Sally spent their teens and twenties moving around the South and Midwest, working low-wage jobs and falling in and out of relationships. Caught in an eternal sibling rivalry–where younger, quieter Lori protected outgoing, reckless Sam–the two women eventually married a pair of brothers and settled down in Elkhart, Indiana, just around the corner from each other. It was there that their lives, once mirrors of each other’s, dramatically diverged. While Lori was ultimately able to leave her violent marriage, Sam was drawn deeper into hers–ensnared under the influence of a husband who slowly radicalized, via the internet, into a jihadist. With their daughter and Sam’s child from a previous relationship, the couple moved to Raqqa, Syria, where Moussa fought for ISIS and Sam, who never even converted to Islam, attempted to survive and protect her children from airstrikes, extremist indoctrination, and the brutality of ISIS. In Raqqa, Sam’s oldest son appeared in several Islamic State propaganda videos, and she participated in ISIS’s practice of enslaving Yezidi women and children. Sam says her husband coerced her to move, but Lori–who quit her job and worked nonstop to get Sam out of Syria–isn’t so sure. American Girls combines an in-depth examination of Sam and Lori’s lives with on-the-ground reporting from Iraq, providing a rare glimpse into the world of American women who join ISIS. Interweaving deeply reported narrative drama with expert analysis, the book explores how the subjugation and abuse experienced by women in the United States, women like Sam and Lori, are one in the same with the conditions that enable the rise of patriarchal, extremist ideologies like those espoused by ISIS. Fascinating, “timely, and chilling” ( Booklist ), American Girls is an unforgettable journey–from small-town Arkansas to Raqqa, from domestic abuse to a militant terrorist organization–all told through the extraordinary story of two close, complicated sisters.
LC Classification Number
HQ1421.R69 2023
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