First time Edith will tell her story: Edith has never given an interview or talked about her experience before launching the book.
Poetry saved her life: writing poetry with a borrowed pen, on whatever scraps of paper she could find, saved Edith’s life while she was held hostage, she says. Her poems are printed in the book.High-profile hostage situation: Edith and her traveling companion, Luca, made international headlines when they were abducted in December 2018 by an Islamic terrorist organization. High-profile media story: The New York Times profiled Edith Blais’s abduction and homecoming in March 2020, as did many other outlets.
Civilian perspective: Unlike other hostage memoirs, Edith’s is from the perspective of a civilian, which provides a unique voice to the hostage memoir drama.Distinctly literary in tone and structure: featuring poems Blais wrote in captivity, further differentiating it from most other hostage memoirs. Features original art by the author in the endpapers of the book.
First time Edith will tell her story: Edith has never given an interview or talked about her experience before launching the book.
Poetry saved her life: writing poetry with a borrowed pen, on whatever scraps of paper she could find, saved Edith’s life while she was held hostage, she says. Her poems are printed in the book.High-profile hostage situation: Edith and her traveling companion, Luca, made international headlines when they were abducted in December 2018 by an Islamic terrorist organization. High-profile media story: The New York Times profiled Edith Blais’s abduction and homecoming in March 2020, as did many other outlets.
Civilian perspective: Unlike other hostage memoirs, Edith’s is from the perspective of a civilian, which provides a unique voice to the hostage memoir drama.Distinctly literary in tone and structure: featuring poems Blais wrote in captivity, further differentiating it from most other hostage memoirs. Features original art by the author in the endpapers of the book.