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A review by coops456
Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian, My Story of Rescue, Hope and Triumph by Yusra Mardini
5.0
Watching the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, I saw the small refugee team taking part under the Olympic flag, as a representation of the millions of people displaced by war and oppression across the globe.
This is the story of one of those athletes - Yusra Mardini is a swimmer from Syria. Her normal teenage life gradually collapsed as war took hold of her country and finally her family took the impossible decision to send Yusra and her sister Sara to Europe.
This is a must-read - we are all human, it's just geography and dumb luck whether you live at peace or not. Anyone with an ounce of empathy will read the sisters' terrifying journey to safety and count their own blessings. The welcome given to refugees - each one of whom is an individual like Yusra - by Germany is uplifting and puts my own country to shame.
This is the story of one of those athletes - Yusra Mardini is a swimmer from Syria. Her normal teenage life gradually collapsed as war took hold of her country and finally her family took the impossible decision to send Yusra and her sister Sara to Europe.
This is a must-read - we are all human, it's just geography and dumb luck whether you live at peace or not. Anyone with an ounce of empathy will read the sisters' terrifying journey to safety and count their own blessings. The welcome given to refugees - each one of whom is an individual like Yusra - by Germany is uplifting and puts my own country to shame.