title: Children of the Howling Desert
author:  B . Foshe 
description: An absolute page turner about the dark secrets of a train wreck of a family! Want to know how deeply the waters of denial run? You've got to read it. The author has a disarmingly, irreverent sense of humor that caught me off guard. There were times I cried, and there were times that I couldn't help but laugh out loud! <br /> <br /> I kept asking if wondering if the story she told was true, or not. Do people really grow up like this? Could this have really happened? The back blurb says based on a true story! <br /> <br /> A short, fast read that I could not put down. If I could have given more stars, I would have. Love, love, loved it!!! --The BookPatch.com
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  _For Alan_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ## TABLE OF CONTENTS
  
  
  [Ghusl](06_ch001.html)
  
  
  [Daughters of Manāt](07_ch002.html)
  
  
  [Disappearance](08_ch003.html)
  
  
  [Only Those Who Struggle Succeed](09_ch004.html)
  
  
  [In the Land of Kan’an](10_ch005.html)
  
  
  [Alligator](11_ch006.html)
  
  
  [Summer of the Shark](12_ch007.html)
  
  
  [Once We Were Syrians](13_ch008.html)
  
  
  [A Girl in Three Acts](14_ch009.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## GHUSL
  
  
  Under the bright lights the skin had turned a whitish gray. A bandage wrapped
  around the face kept the mouth closed and flattened the black hair, made the
  chin thick and shapeless and pushed the cheeks toward shut lids. Rolled towels
  beneath the head and neck lifted the shoulders slightly from the metal bed,
  and under the white sheet the big toes were strung together with twi