Stealing Ali

Description for STEALING ALI by William & Daisy Serle: A child is taken to remote village in Lebanon by her biological father. He leaves her there as an act of revenge. The action sweeps through Miami, New York, Beirut, Bahrain, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi as the characters act out dramas as old as the human family. Kidnapping, jealousy, revenge, stealth and violent behavior engulf them all. Ali was four when her Cuban mother, Maggie, and her Lebanese father, Joe Zayyat got divorced in Miami. Maggie remarried. Joe took Ali to Lebanon to meet his family while Maggie honeymooned with her new husband, Lee. Joe, in a spiteful rage, told his daughter that her mother didn?ÇÖt want her anymore and he left her in Lebanon to be put in a boarding school until he could convince Maggie to leave Lee. This was an emotionally devastating blow. Maggie journeyed alone to Lebanon to retrieve her daughter. Ali?ÇÖs hair was cut short, she was taking Valium and thought her mother didn?ÇÖt love her. Maggi