Desert Children by Waris Dirie

240 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography feminism challenging slow-paced
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U.N. Special Ambassador Waris Dirie was born to a family of tribal nomads in Somalia. She told her story—enduring female circumcision, fleeing through the desert, and, improbably, becoming a top model—in her first book, Desert Flower. In Desert Da...

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