Quicksand (35 page)
Authors: Carolyn Baugh
Dr. Carolyn Baugh
holds both a master's (2008) and a doctorate (2011) from the University of Pennsylvania in Arabic and Islamic Studies. She is an assistant professor of History at Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses in Middle East and world history and also directs the Women's Studies Program. Her graduate research focused on minor marriage in early Islamic law, while her translation work includes the Sufi treatise of the celebrated fourteenth-century jurist and scholar Ibn Khaldun.
Dr. Baugh codirects the
Erie Voices
refugee oral history project geared at collecting the stories of Erie's diverse refugee community for purposes of increasing tolerance and understanding between cultures. She is faculty advisor for Students United Against Human Trafficking and the Muslim Students Association.
She is a failed concert pianist, a psychotic soccer mom to two indomitable girls, and the only one in the house who feeds Oreo the Cat.
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CONTENTS
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This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.
QUICKSAND
Copyright © 2015 by Carolyn Baugh
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Cover photograph © Shutterstock Cover design by Daniel Cullen
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First Edition: September 2015
