Learning to embrace our struggles and find the light.

“Kissing Asphalt: The Courageous True Story of One Child’s Unbreakable Spirit—From Kidnapping & Abuse to Self-Love” is a memoir written by Delicia Niami. The book recounts the author’s experiences of being kidnapped from her Los Angeles home at the age of four by her estranged father and taken to Iraq, a foreign world she had never known. The book also covers years of abuse and sexual assault, plus bullying at school and the bizarre incident where her birth father kidnapped the author and her brother and spirited them away to Baghdad for a year