``A story about love, marriage, compromise, parenthood and the difference between the life one imagined and reality.
`` Fifteen years ago, Krista Bremer, a California-bred feminist, surfer, and aspiring journalist, met Ismail Suayah, sincere, passionate, kind, yet from a very different world.
One of eight siblings born in an impoverished fishing village in Libya, Ismail was raised a Muslim--and his faith informed his life.
When Krista and Ismail made the decision to become a family, she embarked on a journey she never could have imagined, an accidental jihad: a quest for spiritual and intellectual growth that would open her mind and, more important, her heart.
``A bold piece of writing (and thinking) by an incredibly brave woman.
`` --Elizabeth Gilbert, author of The Signature of All Things ``A moving, lyrical memoir.
``--Kirkus Reviews ``Candid and rich.
`` --Good Housekeeping ``Unrelenting candor and gorgeous prose.
`` --Book Page ``Krista Bremer has a very good story.
`` --The New York Times Book Review ``A beautiful account of Krista's] jihad, or struggle, to find peace within herself and within her marriage.
`` --The Kansas City Star ``Lucid, heartfelt, and profoundly humane .
Navigates the boundaries of religion and politics to arrive at the universal experience of love.
`` --G.
Willow Wilson, author of Alif the Unseen ``This is a memoir worth reading.
`` --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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Algonquin Books A tender struggle: story of a marriage, paperback/krista bremer
