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A distraught woman writes a letter to Osama bin Laden after her four-year-old son and her husband are killed in a massive suicide bomb attack at a soccer match in London. In an emotionally raw voice alive with grief, compassion, and startling humor, she tries to convince Osama to abandon his terror campaign by revealing to him the desperate sadness
Another great read from Chris Cleave. This was his debut novel, written in a furiously focused 6-week space. It's an epistolary novel--an impassioned letter to Osama bin Ladin, from a bereaved & heart-broken mother who has lost her family to another of al Qaeda's terrorist attacks (on a stadium in London).
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The blurb was on point about the "grief, compassion and startling humour".
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