explanation of the book

“Flight to Freedom,” by Umit Samur, is the memoir of a Middle Eastern woman’s spiritual journey from a victimized woman to an independent creator. It begins with the 1999 Istanbul earthquake, a devastating event which made her question her life and then make monumental and courageous decisions for a better future.
Would you like to join with me to help women to free their soul and to be able to raise their children as peaceful, happy, independent and creative mothers? With my memoir I am contributing to the consciousness of oneness with the goal of making the world a peaceful and abundant place to live.
I show how the fear of God, which was planted into my subconscious by my mother and society, made me a victimized woman like most of the women in the Middle East. My birth religion has been misinterpreted by men to exert a huge control over women for centuries. It has been giving more rights to men than women. Not knowing their own worth or strength, these women mother and raise the next generation, and so the distortion is passed on generation after generation.
Readers will learn why the actions of Muslim people do not make sense to others. Readers will also realize the hidden pressures and fear beneath those harmful actions. As well, people will learn how a person’s life is formed by family, society and culture.
This memoir is the first book of 3-part series, which presents information about my upbringing and how my wildest childhood dream gave me courage and strength not to quit while overcoming the challenges on my journey. In the second book, I will show how I started a new life in America, my dreamland and created my work from that beginning. In my third book, I will show how I fulfilled my dream and became an American citizen and why I decided to go back to my homeland again.
My memoir has 538 pages in a 5x8-inch double spaced format and includes 15 chapters. The chapters follow the sequence of events in the character’s life.
The first chapter begins when I am on a plane flying to my dream country and I flash back to past memories. I go on to explain why, when the 1999 earthquake happened near Istanbul, it was a wake-up call for me to urgently do something to become a free and independent woman before it was too late.
Subsequent chapters show what it was like to grow up in my culture, from my childhood to the moment that I stepped into the U.S.A., my dream country. When I was a little girl nothing around me made sense and I was so unhappy and scared of living in such a threatening place. But deep inside I knew that there was a place where I would find peace and respect as a woman.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
Umit Samur