The Strange Journals of the Wife of Dr. Anthony Saliba

This novel brings out very clearly and skillfully two problems or issues experienced by many children and by the young and naïve. These two subjects are: 1. Motherless Daughters and 2. The Bi-Ethnic Child. Author Carol Bradford, as a protest writer over many decades, has written and has had published many Letters to the Editors, newspaper articles, also magazine articles about her strong defense of the Arabs in Many Middle East countries, especially focusing on the Gaza Strip. She decries the prominent and negative publicity given these ethnic groups in the press, on television, the Internet and in books, and could change this reality if she could. In this novel, she portrays fully the cruelty of one family who mirrored old-fashioned rigidity, exhibiting similar traits and passions seen and practiced during and well after the days of the Ottoman Empire: the harshness, extreme dislike and insensitivity, at which time the Family was born and lived in Syria, then called Turkey, while Syria was ruled and schooled by the Turks. The author utilizes these writings to reveal the grief and anguish of one Kathleen Saliba.