Expat - Stafford, Lyn C
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In a memoir of her two years in Saudi Arabia, Lyn Stafford leaves her family behind and begins her job as medical editor at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh in 1983. She is only one of the thousands of expatriates over which the Kingdom tightens its control. Corruption reigns and lives are threatened at the Hospital, and her family back home still needs her. To even begin to understand what is happening and minimize the damage, she and expats around her turn to each other for help, and they must rely on the ham radios and smuggled-in newspapers of the expatriate underground to figure out what is really happening.…mehr

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In a memoir of her two years in Saudi Arabia, Lyn Stafford leaves her family behind and begins her job as medical editor at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh in 1983. She is only one of the thousands of expatriates over which the Kingdom tightens its control. Corruption reigns and lives are threatened at the Hospital, and her family back home still needs her. To even begin to understand what is happening and minimize the damage, she and expats around her turn to each other for help, and they must rely on the ham radios and smuggled-in newspapers of the expatriate underground to figure out what is really happening.
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Lyn C. Stafford is author of the memoir, Expat: Chronicles of an Expatriate in Saudi Arabia, and The Road to Margaret, winner of an Excellence Award in 2015 for creative nonfiction. She began her career as medical editor with the Alabama Journal of Medical Sciences and from there went to Saudi Arabia to edit what is now The Annals of Saudi Medicine. After her return to the States, she edited The Southern Medical Journal and helped a number of books into print. Now, after 25 years in Florida, she has retired in Birmingham and continues to swim, play bridge, enjoy lectures at New Horizons, and hold writing workshops. Her other work includes poems in collections by The Poetry Guild and the Alabama Poetry Society.