Bend Like the Willow - Glasier, Susan
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Bend Like the Willow is a many layered story of a young naive American girl who sets out for her first year of university and finds instead a shocking introduction into a cross-cultural marriage of contradiction, mystery and eventual heartbreak with a darkly handsome Moslem Arab-Algerian man. "If I take you to my country, you must learn to bend like the willow or you will snap," he tells her. Along the path to bending like the willow she discovers that life in post-war Algeria with two babies is as fraught with danger and sadness as is the man she married. Both are burdened with hopes and…mehr

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Bend Like the Willow is a many layered story of a young naive American girl who sets out for her first year of university and finds instead a shocking introduction into a cross-cultural marriage of contradiction, mystery and eventual heartbreak with a darkly handsome Moslem Arab-Algerian man. "If I take you to my country, you must learn to bend like the willow or you will snap," he tells her. Along the path to bending like the willow she discovers that life in post-war Algeria with two babies is as fraught with danger and sadness as is the man she married. Both are burdened with hopes and expectations that can never be fulfilled. In the end, it is the tale of a woman who loves a man and a man who loves his country. He is so committed to honouring his love of country and tradition that he fulfills the promise he made to his wife's father, even though it both saves and breaks apart four lives.
Autorenporträt
Susan Glasier was born in the United States but has lived in Canada for fifty years. Susan received a bachelor's degree in Agricultural Sciences from the University of Arizona in 1970 and a Master of Educational Administration from the University of Alberta in 1982. She worked at Olds College both as an instructor and curriculum developer in Olds, Alberta for twenty years. She ran her own business for two years then worked as an Executive Assistant for Prairie Turf Grass Research Center at Olds College for six years before retiring in 2006.She is a member of the Writer's Guild of Alberta. Her first book was Bend Like the Willow, Tale of an Arab Promise, a memoir based on her six-year marriage to an Algerian. She is also published in Women's Words: An Anthology published by the University of Alberta. She now lives with her husband, Robert, in Red Deer, Alberta. Between them they have four children, twelve grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.