"A fresh, captivating memoir about an indomitable woman's journey from her idyllic childhood with her nomadic grandmother in the deserts of Somalia to her escape from her country's brutal civil war and eventually to America"--
Record details
ISBN:9781643750675
ISBN:1643750674
ISBN:9781643751740
Physical Description:print 296 pages ; 22 cm
Edition:First edition.
Publisher:Chapel Hill, North Carolina :Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,2021.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note:
Nomads -- Galkayo -- Ageless Desert Flower -- Carrying Out Tradition -- Orphanage -- The Outside World -- Beautiful Mogadishu -- Journey -- Goodbye, Mogadishu -- Garissa -- Nairobi -- The Promised Land.