Undivided, Patricia Raybon
Undivided, Patricia Raybon
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Undivided
A Muslim Daughter, Her Christian Mother, Their Path to Peace

Author: Patricia Raybon, Alana Raybon

Narrator: Suzie Althens, Dr. Simona Chitescu-Weik

Unabridged: 9 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 04/28/2015


Synopsis

“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?”

About 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.

About Alana Raybon

Alana Raybon is a seasoned elementary- and middle-school educator. During the past ten years, she has served as a third-to-seventh-grade lead teacher to a diverse population in Texas and more recently in Tennessee. She has been a mentor to new and student teachers, an advisor to a school’s accreditation process, a tutor, and a member of various school-related committees. Alana and her husband parent their three young children and a teenage stepson. She was featured with her mother in a May 2011 Mother’s Day reflection in Glamour magazine


Reviews

Goodreads review by Katie on August 08, 2015

This book was terrible. As a human being, I try to acknowledge and respect all religious views- I actually picked up this book looking for some insight into the Muslim American way of life. Patricia, the mother- is ridiculous about pushing her Christian faith on her daughter and never actually valid......more

Goodreads review by Barb reads......it ALL! on July 02, 2015

An incredibly honest and touching story about a mother a daughter, their love for each other and for there religions that threaten to pull them apart. Written by a mother and daughter, their raw emotions and frustrations are on every page, but it's a testament to these strong women that they stay tr......more

Goodreads review by Keely on December 31, 2023

I was really excited for this read, but it fell flat for me. It was very repetitive and there never seemed to be a peace between the two. I did get more insight into the religion of Islam, which I appreciate.......more

Goodreads review by Karen on November 12, 2018

This book alternates between Mother and Daughter as they try to find peace between them. In the end, they have a tentative peace between each other and peace with each of their own religions. Both let go of the need to push their beliefs on the other.......more

Goodreads review by Aelee on May 27, 2017

After reading this book, I don't see where they are any closer to being undivided. I felt that through the whole book the sublime message was my god is better than your god. Maybe what I expected was not their intent. Even the cover bothers me now. I see a mother still praying that her daughter retu......more