Although he claimed his children are his greatest accomplishments, it was difficult for me to tell, since this was the first conversation we'd had since my grandmother (his mom) died. On a personal note, I read this a few months after a rather disconcerting conversation with my own father in which he repeatedly suggested that I require a husband and children to be happy. The way their story was blowing up all over the world, I'm sure quite a few people would line up to help him out with that. 'I'll be so ashamed, I'll kill myself!' he said. Toward the end of the book, when Zana is about to get a divorce from the man she was forced to marry, her father called, begging her not to leave Yemen. I don't know what became of their father, the man responsible for selling them to two Yemeni families for 1300 pounds each. Nadia has since returned to England with her children. Part of Zana's motivation for writing the book was to let people know what had happened to her and to raise enough awareness to get her sister out of there. As of the writing of this book, Zana's sister Nadia was still in Yemen. See that run-on sentence? We can't all write beautifully when we're frazzled out of our minds. It's not the most well-written piece in the world, but I'll cut her some slack for being ripped from her native country of England at the young age of 16 and forced to speak another language for 8 years while she was beaten, raped, enslaved, and lied to, and as an added bonus, she got to watch her younger sister go through the same shit in the next town over. Seriously, I have little to no words to describe this book.

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