Undivided: A Muslim Daughter, Her Christian Mother, Their Path to Peace
Written by Patricia Raybon and Alana Raybon
Narrated by Suzie Althens and Dr. Simona Chitescu-Weik
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About this audiobook
“Mom, I have something I need to tell you…”
They didn’t talk. Not for ten years. Not about faith anyway. Instead, a mother and daughter tiptoed with pain around the deepest gulf in their lives – the daughter’s choice to leave the church, convert to Islam and become a practicing Muslim. Undivided is a real-time story of healing and understanding with alternating narratives from each as they struggle to learn how to love each other in a whole new way.
Although this is certainly a book for mothers and daughters struggling with interfaith tensions , it is equally meaningful for mothers and daughters who feel divided by tensions in general. An important work for parents whose adult children have left the family’s belief system, it will help those same children as they wrestle to better understand their parents.
Undivided offers an up close and personal look at the life of an Islamic convert—a young American woman—at a time when attitudes are mixed about Muslims (and Muslim women in particular), but interest in such women is high. For anyone troubled by the broader tensions between Islam and the West, this personal story distills this friction into the context of a family relationship—a journey all the more fascinating.
Undivided is a tremendously important book for our time. Will Patricia be able to fully trust in the Christ who “holds all things together?” Will Alana find new hope or new understanding as the conversation gets deeper between them? And can they answer the question that both want desperately to experience, which is “Can we make our torn family whole again?”
Patricia Raybon
Patricia Raybon is the award-winning author of I Told the Mountain to Move, a 2006 Book of the Year finalist in Christianity Today magazine’s annual book awards competition; and My First White Friend, her racial forgiveness memoir that won the Christopher Award. She is also author of the One Year® devotional, God’s Great Blessings. A journalist by training, Patricia has written essays on family and faith, which have been published in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, USA Weekend, and In Touch of In Touch Ministries; and aired on National Public Radio. She is also a regular contributor to Today’s Christian Woman online magazine. With degrees in journalism from Ohio State University and the University of Colorado at Boulder, Patricia worked a dozen years as a newspaper journalist for the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News. She later joined the journalism faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where for fifteen years she taught print journalism. Patricia now writes full-time on “mountain-moving faith.” Patricia and her husband, Dan, are longtime residents of Colorado and have two grown daughters and five grandchildren. Founder of the Writing Ministry at her Denver church, Patricia coaches and encourages aspiring authors around the country and is a member of the Colorado Authors League and the Authors Guild.
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Reviews for Undivided
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The narrators were fantastic. The book title Undivided ... Their Path to Peace led me to believe the book would have a different tone. The mother is overbearing, and I thought petty and childish. The daughter chose a path that worked for her. She has an attentive encouraging husband. They both work, are active in their faith activities, and have children who are their priority. Ten years is a long time for a Christian mother not to speak to her daughter. I can understand why the daughter stayed away. The path to peace I believe the daughter knew would be a lifelong conscious decision to get along. The ball is and has always been in the mother's court.
The book really is more about the mother wanting her way, without trying to understand the path her daughter chose. It's not a great book. It's not bad. It's meh. I learned and appreciated when the daughter spoke.
I picked up the book at Book Outlet on clearance (only books I buy) and read along with the audio from Scribd. And, I'm glad I did. There are lessons to learn.