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"Fifteen year old Zana Muhsen and her younger sister Nadia were living a normal teenage in Birmingham in a Muslim family. One day their strict father told them that they would be going on a six week holiday to the Yemen where they would experience white sandy beaches and camel racing. Little did they know the real reason why they were being sent there until Zana was the first to go.
When she arrived with her father's friend, she was told that she and Nadia had been sold by their father into illegal marriages with two boys who lived in their village. Their lives turned into nightmares when they suddenly had to endure beatings, rape and childbirth at a very young age. Their in-laws forced the girls to write letters to their mother telling them that they were having a wonderful holiday, but she soon found out why they were really in the Yemen.
Somehow the girls got in touch with journalist Eileen MacDonald, who interviewed them and took photographs of the girls in their hostile environment. Their mother also got in touch with the authorities in the Yemen, who agreed that both marriages were illegal. Unfortunately, only Zana was able to escape and return to worldwide fame, and Nadia is still in the Yemen. However Zana promised to try every possible way to remove her sister from her imprisonment."
Liza Rosette, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Political/social rights fight
Yes
Plotlet:
- women fighting for rights
Ethnic/Relig. of subject (inside)
- Arab
Gender/Class story?
- woman's story
Ethnic/regional/gender
Yes
ethnic of society (outside)
- Arab
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Female
Age:
- a teen
Ethnicity
- Arab
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 5 ()
Desert?
Yes
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Book makes you feel?
- thoughtful
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- rape/molest (yeech!)
Writer's slant towards subject:
- somewhat unfavorable
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of set of events during life
Pictures/Illustrations?
- More 6-10 B&W
How much dialogue in bio?
- significantly more descript than dialog
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