-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Book Summary This is a story of a young female medical graduate from Pakistan, who survived a brutal attack that almost took her life in her grandparents' house in Karachi, Pakistan. The attack leads to the violent death of her grandparents. Sabah takes the reader through her childhood and adult life experiences as a Muslim girl in a fictional format. This story tells the reader how she survived and overcame the traumatic events that she witnessed. She comes to the United States to visit her sister, and the story takes a turn for good-she meets a blue-eyed, blond-haired American entrepreneur who lives on the beach in Southern California, whom she falls in love with and marries. Her family resists her marriage outside her culture. She tells the reader how she overcomes the cultural barrier and follows her heart. She then takes the reader through her adventurous life in America with the love of her life, who introduces her to a new world-the American world, where she finds her place and practices medicine after she becomes licensed as a medical doctor.
About the Author: Dr. Alia Khan-Hudson was born in Karachi, Pakistan, and graduated from Pakistan College in the UAE before obtaining an MBBS from Fatima Jinnah Medical College in Lahore, Pakistan. She finished her residency as a board certified chief resident at King Drew Medical Center in internal medicine and finished her fellowship at the UCLA department of gerontology. She also worked as an advanced fellow at the Department of Veterans Affairs in Los Angeles. Her article on elder abuse was acknowledged in the Journal of the National Medical Association, she received an award for her presentation to the American Geriatric Society on "Sleep Disturbances in Assisted Living Facilities - Evidence and Contributing Factors," and her chapter "Sleep and Quality of Life in Older People" was published in Sleep and Quality of Life in Clinical Medicine (Verster, Joris C., Pandi-Perumal, S.R., and Streiner, David L., eds. New Jersey: Humana Press, 2008). She also obtained training at Harvard Macy Institute on the Program for Educators in Health Care Professions. She currently works as a hospitalist.