Review by cheesehead_reader - The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree: How I Fought to Save Myself, My Sister, and Thousands of Girls Worldwide

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The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree: How I Fought to Save Myself, My Sister, and Thousands of Girls Worldwide by Nice Leng'ete

5.0

This story was amazing! It made the act of female genital mutilation personal. Instead of getting dry facts. We are given a story of how the Cut affected one girl and her sister. Despite being a story of a horrifying act, we get Nice's full story from her earliest memory at 4 of bearing witness to a Cut ceremony throughout her life with her parents and then her extended family. Nice was a Masai woman who just wanted an education and her fight to get it. I loved this.