Sharmaine A. Novelles. Prof. Fajardo
BSA 3-B LIT 101

Not Without My Daughter

Not Without My Daughter is a plain but complicated story that is based on a true to life narrative about the effort and struggle that an American woman did in order to escape from Iran to America with her daughter parting. The story starts when an American woman, Betty Mahmoody goes to Iran with her Iranian husband and their daughter for a two-week jaunt. He has guaranteed her that they would return to United States of America. But because he was so depressed and rejected about the racism of the American medical establishment he changes ...

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