A review by larryerick
We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World by Malala Yousafzai

3.0

This book starts out nicely enough. And then it becomes clear it deteriorates into an overly simplistic public relations presentation for promoting education for refugee girls. You can easily imagine a fundraiser event in which various girls and women step up to the podium and tell their short stories. This could have been so much more. It's much too binary, ignoring many shades of gray. Moreover, the ghost writer for the various story tellers gives the same tone and voice for each. Perhaps, worst of all, the people who will read this and enjoy it will likely never know how far they are from knowing the true important nuances that obviously are at play. I find it incredibly sad that this might be the first inkling of knowledge of these situations in the world for those readers. I'm not faulting for a second what the main author is trying to ultimately accomplish. I just wish so many of us didn't have to get a free meal or a cheap prize before we bothered to learn about what needed our attention.