Kit Anderson is a teacher and medical technologist. She has traveled in more than fifty countries, working in relief and development with a Christian mission agency She served eight years in Turkey, four of those years among the Kurdish people in the east where she made many friends. Admiring their courage in the face of violent cultural transition, she began to collect and write down the stories they told of their lives. In this book, Kit writes a story of five sisters growing up in turbulent times. Their story is a composite of the lives of many Kurdish women she knew. Herself the mother of four daughters with nine grandchildren, Kit believes that women everywhere shape their world with the same resiliance and courage her characters display in this novel.
