I looked at the picture in my passport.  I hadn't seen it in two years.  There was my almost fifteen-year-old self - beautiful, naive, expectant.  I looked at the picture from different angles, then held it up to my face in the mirror.  Everything I had been through was summed up there in those two faces.  The fresh-faced girl flowering into womanhood - her whole self shimmering on her skin - and the dolled-up skeleton who buried under makeup the bitter fact that her dreams and longings...her identity...had withered under the desert sun like tender herbs.  And the only intervening fact was Iraq.

"If I Live to Tell" follows one woman's struggle to discover purpose and identity in the face of lifelong tragedy, betrayal, and abuse.  Set on three continents, this gripping true story provides a rare glimpse into the world and heart of the largely invisible victimized woman.