The Sweetness of Tears: A Novel

When faith and facts collide, Jo March-a young woman born into an Evangelical Christian dynasty-wrestles with questions about who she is and how she fits into the weave of her faithful family. Chasing loose threads that she hopes will lead to the truth, Jo sets off on an unlikely quest across boundaries of language and religion, through chasms of sectarian divides in the Muslim world. Against the backdrop of the War on Terror-travelling from California to Chicago, Pakistan to Iraq-she delve...