Naseem rakha biography sample
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An Interview with Naseem Rakha
Naseem Rakha is a journalist, geologist, author, and mother.
Naseem rakha biography sample
Her debut novel, The Crying Tree (Broadway, 2009; in paperback, 2010), has been translated into 11 languages and received the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award in 2010.
The Crying Tree explores the challenge of forgiving the unforgivable.
Irene Stanley, a conservative wife and mother of two, faces a parent’s worst nightmare: her son, Shep, is murdered. Irene struggles for many years with her son’s death and the protracted death sentence of his murderer until she decides she must forgive both the criminal and the crime.
As a reporter, Rakha covered executions in her home state of Oregon, where her novel’s murder also takes place.
The Crying Tree regained public prominence in December 2011 when Oregon’s governor placed a moratorium on the death penalty. This decision granted reprieve to Gary Haugen, a death row inmate who had read The Crying Tree an