K. Moore
The idea for Desert Rose came about many years ago as I lived an expat life in Dubai. I was drinking coffee with a group of moms after dropping the kids off at school, listening to one of them retell her experience at Carrefour the evening before. She had lost her daughter in the aisles. She said she was frantic, yelling and running up and down the aisles in the store, searching for her. Her daughter had wandered off and was being led to the security desk by a South Asian couple when the mother finally found her. That one story sparked an idea, questioning what would’ve happened if she’d been abducted. How would such an incident play out within a culturally rich and diverse environment? Also, who would abduct a pretty little girl and for what reason? But I suppose most intriguing would be how something like this would affect the mother and the family dynamics, given where this incident occurred. So, what resulted is Jen’s story. Her journey is fiction, closely interwoven with varying truths.
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