Zainab Salbi was eleven years old when her father was chosen to be Saddam Hussein\'s personal pilot and her family\'s life was grafted onto his.
Between Two Worlds is a riveting quest for truth that deepens our understanding of the universal themes of power, fear, sexual subjugation, and the question one generation asks the one before it: How could you have let this happen to us?. "He can read eyes."In this richly visual memoir, Salbi describes tyranny as she saw it - through the eyes of a privileged child, a rebellious teenager, a violated wife, and ultimately a public figure fighting to overcome the skill that once kept her alive: silence. "Learn to erase your memories," she instructed.
Burying in boxes in her mind the horrors she glimpsed around her.
Saying yes.
A plastic smile.
Her mother, the beautiful Alia, taught her daughter the skills she needed to survive.
Zainab Salbi was eleven years old when her father was chosen to be Saddam Hussein\'s personal pilot and her family\'s life was grafted onto his
