Desert Flower by Waris Dirie, Cathleen Miller

Desert Flower

Waris Dirie, Cathleen Miller

240 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
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Waris Dirie ran away from her oppressive life in the African desert when she was barely in her teens, illiterate and impoverished, with nothing to her name but a tattered shawl. She traveled alone across the dangerous Somali desert to Mogadishu — ...

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Moods

emotional 81%
informative 70%
inspiring 67%
reflective 45%
sad 42%
challenging 40%
hopeful 28%
dark 24%
adventurous 22%
tense 13%
funny 6%
lighthearted 1%

Pace

medium 61%
fast 36%
slow 2%

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