..".an eye-opening adventure that touched me deeply...this powerful
story continues to resonate in my heart long after the last page
was turned." -New York Times #1 best-selling author Cheryl
Richardson The Seven Perfumes of Sacrifice, Amy Logan's
controversial debut novel - over a decade in the making - is a
women's thriller about the search for the divine feminine and the
ancient lost origins of "honor killing" in the Middle East. In this
post-9/11 cautionary tale, an American writer struggles to
"civilize" a tiny Arab village of Israel; her intercession leads to
tragedy beyond anyone's calculation...and revelations that could
heal what seems hopeless. American freelance journalist Fereby
McCullough Jones is struggling to sell stories from Israel when she
befriends Leila, a young artist in a village on Mt. Carmel. Leila
is a Druze - a secretive, Arabic-speaking, thousand-year-old
offshoot of Islam - and shares her double life with Fereby:
Painting nudes, lovers and goddesses - taboo subjects in her
culture - and selling them in Tel Aviv. When Leila becomes the
possible victim of an "honor killing" - the murder of a female by
her family for violating cultural gender norms - Fereby witnesses
the village celebration, her family's silence and police
indifference. Enraged, Fereby launches an investigation that is
decidedly unwelcome. With her oddball translator, Moshe, she
struggles to unearth Leila's traumatic life story, facing a
conspiracy of silence, police and government corruption, a
forbidden connection with Leila's brother, Fadi, and danger and
backlash she never anticipated. After a shocking turn of events,
Fereby is forced to come to terms with her own painful past that's
fueling her search. Then, Leila's last series of paintings prompts
Fereby and Moshe to make a surprising discovery: The ancient, lost
origins of honor killing, which have been suppressed for millennia,
and hold some volatile secrets. A mysterious prediction leads
Fereby to Leila's killer, but it turns into her worst nightmare: To
get justice for Leila's death, will Fereby have to sacrifice
something even greater? What price are human rights worth fighting
for? Seven Perfumes' author Amy Logan discovered that just trying
to discuss the issue of honor killing openly, let alone fight
against it, was taboo in the cultures where it occurs. She realized
that must be why this violent practice has continued unabated in
some places for several thousand years. To try to understand and
expose the mysterious underpinnings of honor killing, Logan landed
rare homestays with the Druze in Israel and spent a decade
researching and building a theory of the ancient lost origins of
the practice. As she gradually uncovered a vast and true deception
from the birth of honor killing, The Seven Perfumes of Sacrifice
began to tell her its story... "An important book with a powerful
story that places the words 'divine' and 'feminine' back where they
belong: Together." - Sherry Jones, best-selling author of The Jewel
of Medina, The Sword of Medina and the forthcoming Four Sisters,
All Queens ..".an un-put-downable literary thriller ...The book is
Logan's debut, but it surely won't be her last." - Joy Tipping,
Dallas Morning News' Book Reviewer
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