Diane Foley Bücher

In «American Mother» begegnet Diane Foley, Mutter des 2014 ermordeten Journalisten James Foley, dem Mörder ihres Sohnes. Gemeinsam reflektieren sie über sein Leben und den Kampf gegen Hass und Schmerz. Diane setzt sich für Geiselangehörige ein und zeigt bemerkenswerten Glauben und Mitgefühl, was den Leser tief berührt.

"Why would a decent sort like you want to live in this neighbourhood? You know this is the South End? Wrong side of the tracks."With these words, a Nanaimo taxi driver delivered Diane Foley to her new home in 1994. In pursuit of an enterprising beau with a handful of dubious South End rental properties, Diane truly "finds herself" in the life-changing new experience of running Big Sab, the transition house for men coming out of prison with addiction problems. And she finds these men, the lost boys of society, to be more intelligent, generous and talented than threatening or unhinged -- at least usually.Off the Tracks is a story about the human spirit willing to fight against enormous odds. It is about passion and ragged hope, self-destruction and unrequited love. Taking Diane's bold lead, we fall head over heels for a broken-down, close-knit community for an impossible "wanderlust" wolf dog, and for the social misfits at Big Sab. In doing so, we discover beauty off the tracks in the kindness and camaraderie of Nanaimo's South End. Delivered with Foley's welcoming perceptive and soulfully charming panache for storytelling, this book will make the reader laugh throughout but also weep when we least expect it, all the while making all of us -- on both sides of the tracks -- more human.

'An extraordinary story of grace, forgiveness and moral courage' Patrick Radden KeefeA 2024 HIGHLIGHT IN THE OBSERVER, GUARDIAN AND IRISH TIMESThe English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years since Diane Foley's son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped in northern Syria, and nearly ten since that day in August 2014 when she would learn that he had been murdered by ISIS in a public beheading that would ricochet in video around the world. A whole decade. Time rushes past. And yet, for Diane, that moment is unending. In American Mother, legendary author Colum McCann tells Diane's story as she recalls the months of his captivity, the efforts made to bring him home and the days following his death, in which Diane came face to face with one of the men responsible for her son's kidnapping and torture. A testament to the power of radical empathy and moral courage, American Mother takes us inside one woman's extraordinary journey to find connection in a world torn asunder, and to fight for others as a way to keep her son's memory alive.