This memoir depicts a young girl's aspirations to attend college and spares no effort in achieving freedom to do so, seventeen years after graduating high school.
Raised in a restrictive environment in Cairo, where immigrant parents still observe old country traditions and limit their daughter's aspirations for higher learning, she decides to quit her paternal home and follow her own path to emancipation. She finds employment with the World Health Organization and manages to leave Egypt for a work assignment in Congo, a country in turmoil. Despite the risks she remains there for three years and starts a nest egg for her college education. She manages to travel to eighteen countries in three continents to visit relatives, do some sightseeing and look for a niche where she can feel at home. Seventeen years after high school graduation she sets feet at Columbia University in New York to realize her dream of becoming a writer.
She never felt safe at home as a young girl, and didn't understand why when she finally escaped she wasn't safe in the big wide world either ...effectively jumping out of the frying pan into the fire!
At the young of age of seven, Jill's mother Eve takes her for regular sessions to a child psychologist for treatment of her anxiety, which only makes her behavior worse. When she reaches her teens, she starts drinking and then smoking marijuana with
Inside the Methadone Clinic. Addiction to heroin, methadone, and other opiates. Destruction. The primal addiction" of the child, power and control over your own life, the institutions and the characters, the love between a mother and son. This book i
