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Bend Like the Willow: A Tale of an Arab Promise by Susan Glasier is a many layered story of a young naive American girl who sets out for her first year of university and finds instead a shocking introduction into a cross-cultural marriage of contradiction, mystery and eventual heartbreak with a darkly handsome Muslim North African (Algerian) man.

Along this path, she discovers that life in post-war Algeria with two babies is as fraught with danger and sadness as is the man she married. Both are burdened with hopes and expectations that can never be fulfilled. In the end, their story turns out to be a tale of a woman who loves a man and a man who loves his country.

Excerpt from BEND LIKE THE WILLOW: A Tale of an Arab Promise by Susan Glasier:

“No, no, please no cry, Sewsi. It hurts my heart to see you cry. We fix this –” he pauses, “this – this thing.” I look at him. I don’t know him. One minute I love him and the next, I don’t understand who he is. What does he mean we will fix this thing? It is not a thing. Oh god, please don’t let there be a thing.

We arrive at the office door. We enter to find ourselves in front of a high, dark mahogany counter. The nurse behind it looks up. “Uh, you are –?” she asks in a no-nonsense voice. “Susan Glasier,” I whisper. “Oh,” her voice changes to the gentle one I remember from the phone. “Yes,” she adds, “Just have a seat and the doctor will be with you right away.”

Susan Glasier was born in the United States but has lived in Canada for fifty years. Susan received a bachelor's degree in Agricultural Sciences from the University of Arizona in 1970 and a Master of Educational Administration from the University of Alberta in 1982. She worked at Olds College both as an instructor and curriculum developer in Olds, Alberta for twenty years. She ran her own business for two years then worked as an Executive Assistant for Prairie Turf Grass Research Center at Olds College for six years before retiring in 2006.She is a member of the Writer's Guild of Alberta. Her first book was Bend Like the Willow, Tale of an Arab Promise, a memoir based on her six-year marriage to an Algerian. She is also published in Women's Words: An Anthology published by the University of Alberta. She now lives with her husband, Robert, in Red Deer, Alberta. Between them they have four children, twelve grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.