Mosaic

By Soheir Khashoggi

Book Overview

Set against the bustling backdrop of New York City and the exotic splendor of Jordan, "Mosaic" is a story of love and betrayal, of a clash of cultures and traditions---and one woman's struggle to rebuild her life. Like many working mothers, Dina Ahmed has become adept at juggling her family and her work. She's the owner of Mosaic, a thriving floral design business, and has been blessed with success, beauty, and, most important, a happy family. But when she returns home one day to discover that her six-year-old twins have vanished, Dina is forced to admit that her life and her marriage were not as perfect as she'd once believed. After many desperate phone calls---and anxious hours spent piecing the puzzle together---Dina accepts the terrible truth: Her husband, Karim, has taken the twins to his homeland of Jordan to raise the children with his family there. The authorities can do nothing to bring Dina's children back, and even her father's contacts in the U.S. State Department are of little help. Karim's family is wealthy and powerful, and even though Dina is half Arab herself, her options are limited. Distraught, but determined to fight, Dina travels to Jordan to confront her husband and to enact a desperate plan to get her children back---but at what risk?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765312352
• ISBN13: 9780765312358
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Forge Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.6" x 1.1" x 6.4"

Customer Reviews

A Story With No Villains

Dina is the American wife of Karim, an Arab from Jordan. The couple live in New York in post 911 days. A working mother of young twins and an older boy who has just confessed to being gay, Diana is devestated when Karim takes the twins, without her knowledge until they are gone, to his family home in Jordan. His feeling is that America has corrupted his older son and he cannot allow that to happen to the twins, especially the boy. The book is an easy read and kept my attention. I titled this review "A Story With No Villains" unless one would classify the clash of cultures as such. Prepared to hate Karim, I came to understand how culture shaped his thinking,as culture shapes all our thinking. Eunice Boeve, author of Maggie Rose and Sass

Great Book

I picked this book up at Barns and Noble, and as I read the back it sounded quite interesting. I decided to purchase it. I started reading and read the first 10 chapters in one night; I wanted to read more and more.....I think that the author did a good job in telling the story.