Total Page : 192
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
Publication Date : 2010 03 02
>> Entertaining
This is an entertaining quick read You learn about Nujood s culture a bit Her father marries her off at 10 years old to an adult to pay a couple hundred dollars of debts If you love your daughter do you sell her like a used car Her new husband has sworn that he won t touch her until she is 13 Oops he lied He touches a 10 year old Nujood often and abuses her in other ways She is essentially a slave to her new husband and his family But Nujood fights back and seeks a divorce The book tells about the shock of a young Muslim girl seeking divorce in a male dominated society But she gets help from men and women who care about her
>> Great Cultural Read
Once I started this book I couldn t put it down until I was finished Both insightful and suspenseful it s written in a first person narrative talking about the events as if they were unfolding right before our eyes I found this a rather startling look into a culture I know little about through the eyes of a young brave girl fighting for her right to live out her childhood as any child should
Nujood s story encompasses her early childhood life in a small village with no electricity where they lived richly to a big city where they were reduced to provery her marriage to and divorce from the one she called the monster and her family life in general with her parents and siblings I learned a lot from reading this book and realized that there are a lot of things creature comforts in particular that I really take for granted
This book gives the reader a glimpse of what it s like in Nujood s part of the world both in her family and outside of her family Truly an inspiring autobiographical story It shows the similarities between the Yemen culture and us over here as well as major heartbreaking differences What I love most about this story is that even in the midst of hopelessness and cruelty and nightmares there is light in the form compassionate caring people more than willing to do everything they can to help a little girl get her life back
>> Review of I am Nujood
I was hesitant about giving this book a rating because I can t really say that I enjoyed it
There are a few things I appreciated about it I appreciated it s short to the point length Any more and I don t know that I could have handled it I appreciated that the book focused so intently on rehabilitation and didn t feel the need to go into massive amounts of detail with regards to Nujood s circumstances and the horror she dealt with
This is an important book It s written in a way that really brings out the confused girl woman s voice from Nujood She s 10 years old a child but the things she talks about should never have had to come out of a child s mouth
Important book and one that should be read Talk about this book get people reading it I intend to
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