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Book Review: The Prayer Rug by HM Hymas

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Release Date: June 11, 2015 Publisher: Black Rose Writing Format: Kindle Pages: 155 Genre: Fiction, War Buy:   Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis: Reem, a wife and mother of two, is caught in Iraq after the invasion of US Forces. What began as a future full of hope slowly begins to unravel before her eyes. As the original effort to remove a tyrannical dictator degrades into civil war, it engulfs everyone and everything around her. Everything she loves is slowly taken from her as she watches forces beyond her control destroy her family. Helpless, she clings to her prayer rug in an effort to find strength and peace. Review:  This is war.  Its not something that is watched on TV, its not something that should be taken lightly.  Its the slow destruction of a civilization, of families, of children.  This is a heartbreaking and honest look at what war does to a community, to a family, to a person.  Reem is a woman clinging to her faith to help ...