Suitcase Filled with Nails

Lessons Learned from Teaching Art in Kuwait

A spirited artist with a can-do attitude, Yvonne Wakefield leaves behind a secure life in the lush Pacific Northwest to teach art in the desert state of Kuwait. Over the course of six years, she will instruct university-aged Muslim women, earn her students' trust, and learn the consequences of freedom of expression, taken for granted in one culture but not granted in another. Despite obstacles set by her detractors, she persists, and her students and life in Kuwait flourish. Yet the traps never disappear, only multiply, as others set more for her, intent on denying what they have no desire to understand.

Told from the unique perspective of an artist, Suitcase Filled with Nails is a colorful, true, timely, rare, and riveting tale about living and coping in the Middle East.

©2013 Yvonne Wakefield (P)2015 Yvonne Wakefield

full of negativity

worst narrator ever. like listening to a computer. doesn't even have the basic rhythm of the English language. just terrible.