The Garden of Milk and Wine
A Collection of Short Stories
Garden of Milk and Wine is a collection of short stories by Dr. Mo H Saidi. It is a fascinating blend of experience and imagination with drama, pathos, a twist of humor and a touch of poetry scattered throughout.
Readers will enjoy poignant and humorous moments in the life of a young boy growing up in a strict Muslim home, where he is forbidden to play his beloved chess and soccer, which are seen as a sinful waste of time.
Readers witnesses the tension and frequent terror of living under an oppressive regime through the eyes of one who lived through it, along with others whose strength, determination, and vision for a better life carried them forward.
Readers also get a behind the scene glimpse at hospital politics and the life and death drama that physicians experience every day. In these stories readers see not only the doctors' heroic efforts on behalf of their patients, but their weaknesses and failures are also exposed.
This is a unique book that will both inform as well as entertain.
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"His characters struggle with both physical and spiritual disease and death. He offers us no easy solutions to life's complexities some wounds do not heal but these stories inspire with their characters' tough determination to embrace the questions, to follow the tougher paths, to not give in. "
--~ Jim Daniels, Author of Trigger Man: More Tales of the Motor City