Today, we hear from Sulome Anderson, author and writer of stories about people who have lived in what she describes as extreme circumstances – women enslaved by ISIS militants, for example, and Syrian children who have been severely traumatized by unending war.

For the next half hour, listen to Anderson discuss her work and her emotional reactions to these tragedies – and also hear about some of her uplifting narratives. And she talks about her book The Hostage’s Daughter, a compelling memoir that begins with her birth three months after her father, former AP correspondent Terry Anderson, was kidnapped and held captive for seven years by Hezbollah terrorists.

This is an audio version of a broadcast of the Story in the Public Square TV and Sirius/XM Satellite radio program, recorded in the studios of Rhode Island PBS and hosted by me and Jim Ludes of the Pell Center at Salve Regina University. Story in the Public Square is a partnership of the Pell Center and The Providence Journal. For more, visit providencejournal.com orpellcenter.org