 Algonquin Books 304 pages Product Description <p>Fifteen years
ago, Krista Bremer would not have been able to imagine her life
today: married to a Libyan-born Muslim, raising two children
with Arabic names in the American South. Nor could she have
imagined the prejudice she would encounter or the profound ways
her marriage would change her perception of the world.<br /><br
/>But on a running trail in North Carolina, she met Ismail. He
was passionate and sincere—and he loved adventure as much as she
did. From acquaintances to lovers to a couple facing an
unexpected pregnancy, this is the story of two people—a middle-
class American raised in California and a Muslim raised by
illiterate parents in an impoverished Libyan fishing village—who
made a commitment to each other without forsaking their own
identities.<br /><br />It is the story of a bicultural
marriage—and aren’t all marriages bicultural? In any marriage,
we might discover that our mate is foreign to us, with very
different language, memories, and assu