A life story
Roanoke author Judy Ayyildiz has written a novel based on the life of her Turkish mother-in-law, a progressive who lived through the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of the Turkish Republic.
By Mike Allen
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Jeanna Duerscherl | The Roanoke Times
Judy Ayyildiz, a poet and writing teacher, has written a novel called "Forty Thorns" based on the life of her Turkish mother-in-law Adalet Ayyildiz. The novel has been a bestseller in Turkey.
Two years before Adalet Ayyildiz died, she called her daughter-in-law in Roanoke.
As poet and novelist Judy Ayyildiz recounts it, her mother-in-law asked her to come to Turkey and hear her life story.
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