Krista Bremer on My Accidental Jihad

Krista Bremer grew up enjoying a comfortable, secular middle class American life, visiting Disneyland and learning to surf. She never expected to fall in love with Ismael, the child of a large Muslim family from a poor Libyan fishing village. In My Accidental Jihad: A Love Story Bremer tells how the two came together, despite huge cultural differences. “The story Krista Bremer tells–one of radical foreignness between a married couple,” Haven Kimmel author of A Girl Named Zippy writes, “could be a metaphor for all committed relationships.” Bremer is the associate publisher of The Sun and the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award.