The memoir of an American woman stuck in the Middle East as her life unravels. Listed as one of Goodreads best books for a book club, Kirchner delivers an unflinching look at turn-of-the-century expatriate life in Qatar. New edition.

“Like Eat Pray Love, but funny,”
—NPR

“Packed with plenty of loss -- an inability to have children, a crushing divorce, the state of being alone far from home -- but it ends in soaring redemption.”
—Bustle.com

“MEMOIR GOLD,”
—Random guest at a storytelling show

“I hoped moving to Qatar would change everything,” LL Kirchner writes. “Until it did.”

Moving to a strict Muslim country was a way to prove her love and improve the state of women in a patriarchal culture. But after losing her health, her dogs, and her marriage, Kirchner had nowhere to turn but inward.

Unforgettable, humorous, and sexy, American Lady Creature is a story of loss transformed, by the landscape, people, and hope she found as a woman living in Qatar. After a lifetime of seeing herself as a fiercely independent woman, she was not expecting to find new resources for healing from within a Muslim culture.

From the award-winning screenwriter LL Kirchner comes this memoir of discovering what it meant to divorce while female and living in the Persian Gulf—the soul-searching questions, the loss, and the sheer ridiculousness of hitting one’s sexual peak in a country where dating was illegal.

"Saucy and funny and unflinchingly honest. A picaresque tale of a woman lost—and found—in the Persian Gulf."
—Eric Weiner, author of the best-selling The Geography of Bliss.

Sign up now to get the most out of Books2Read

Discover something great at Books2Read.

Thanks for signing up for Books2Read notifications!