~ Standard Hardcover
~ New Release - 2024
American Girls: One Woman's Journey Into the Islamic State and Her Sister's Fight to Bring Her Home
Sisters Lori and Sam Sally were raised in a restrictive Jehovah Witness community, grew up to work low-wage jobs and fall into bad relationships, until they eventually married a pair of brothers and settled in Indiana, but it was there that their lives went down totally different roads . . .
Covering the story of an American woman forced by her extremist husband to travel to ISIS-controlled Syria, along with her two children, and the sister back home who worked tirelessly to help her escape, American Girls is a brilliant, deeply reported narrative about religious extremism, domestic abuse, radicalization, and the bonds between sisters.