A Brave Face is written by Barbara Marlowe and Teeba Furate Marlowe. The book is 256 pages in length and is published by Tommy Nelson Publishing. Once I started reading this book it was impossible to put it down. Teeba's life would forever be changed by a roadside bomb that would disfigure her face at the tender age of 4 in her home country of Iraq. On the other side of the world, Barbara Marlowe would see an article in the newspaper and a picture of little Teeba. In that very moment Barbara was instantly drawn to this little girl. In the beginning her goal was to get little Teeba a wig to cover the severely burned, bald head that the blast had caused. Soon, Barbara's little project turned into finding a way to get Teeba to the United States for medical treatment to help lessen the scarring that the blast had caused. This would turn into a HUGE ordeal as the United States was at war with Iraq. After a yearlong fight to get clearance and visa's in place Teeba and her grandmother arrived in the United States to start treatment to help alleviate the painful scarring due to the burns. What everyone thought would take months or a year would turn into YEARS! How would Teeba's family feel about this. Would Teeba's parents Farat and Dunia agree to this. Dunia, wanted nothing more than for her daughter to be safe and get the medical care she so desperately needed. By this time, she knew that Teeba was in a wonderful home and very loved. She had already told Barbara and her husband, Tim that she wanted Teeba to stay in America. It wasn't that she didn't yearn to have her daughter, but she knew that life for Teeba would be unsafe and no good if she came back to Iraq. Over the years Teeba thrived in the United States. At the age of twelve her American parents and her mom and sibling from Iraq would meet up in Dubai for a joyful reunion that would bring healing and a time of togetherness that the two mothers had looked forward to for so many years. Teeba and her mother reconnected as if they were merely picking up from where they had left off. Dunia was extremely proud of the beautiful young lady Teeba had become and was grateful for the amazing work that the doctors had done to restore the damage done to Teeba's face. Over the years God's hand could clearly be seen time and again in the smallest of details. God truly wove together two cultures, to faiths, and two families.
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