![]() So after her grandmother's death, they left for the promised land – America. Elias's father was a farmer and landowner, and knew he had to get out. ![]() The Ba'ath party was in the ascendant, and businesses, land, banks and agriculture were being nationalised. The Elias family were Orthodox Christians, previous escapees from Turkey and now Syria began to make them feel unwelcome. She became brooding, angry, distant and even more determined to act out. She argues, a little simplistically perhaps, that this tendency was exacerbated by two serious accidents – one where, aged two, she leapt off the top of a wardrobe and was not caught, as she confidently expected, by her brother another where she broke her leg disobeying orders and had to lie in bed while her family went away to the beach for the summer. She was the fourth of four children, and found, early on, that her need "to be the centre of attention, no matter what" was answered most quickly by "being bad". ![]()
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