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    Brick by Brick: Building Hope and Opportunity for Women Survivors Everywhere
    Brick by Brick: Building Hope and Opportunity for Women Survivors Everywhere
    Brick by Brick: Building Hope and Opportunity for Women Survivors Everywhere
    Audiobook10 hours

    Brick by Brick: Building Hope and Opportunity for Women Survivors Everywhere

    Written by Karen Sherman

    Narrated by Donna Postel

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    About this audiobook

    After a twenty-five-year career spent fighting for women's rights around the globe at the expense of time with her family, Karen Sherman looked around and realized she didn't really know her children and felt little connection to her husband. With her world—work, marriage, family—crashing down, she made the rash decision to move to Rwanda with her three sons, an experiment she dubbed "our year of living dangerously."



    While her boys attended the international school, she worked to better the lives of women survivors of war. But as the survivors shared their stories of grit and determination, building lives and raising families despite the brutal challenges of war, genocide, and inequality, Karen began to see how her work was connected to the abuse in her own past, and how it was preventing her from becoming the woman she wanted to be. The struggles of these survivors, she realized, were the struggles of women everywhere, regardless of place or circumstance: striving to balance work and family, fighting for real options and choices, trying to make their voices heard.



    In the end, the journey brings her home to her family and to a renewed commitment to fighting for women around the world to live free from violence and abuse, in peace and with dignity.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 27, 2020
    ISBN9781705253304
    Brick by Brick: Building Hope and Opportunity for Women Survivors Everywhere

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