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Book Review of Not Without My Daughter

Not Without My Daughter
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In August of 1984, Michigan housewife Betty Mahmoody accompanied her husband to his native Iran for a 2 week vacation. To her horror, she found herself and her 4 y/o daughter, Mahtob, virtual prisoners of a man rededicated to his Shiite Moslem faith, in a land where women are near slaves and Americans are despised. Their only hope for escape lay in a dangerous underground that would nto take her child...