The autobiography of a Somalian nomad circumcised at 3 and sold in marriage at 13, who fled from Africa a while later and finally became an American supermodel and is now, at age 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation (FGM).
Desert Flower
Waris Dirie, born 1965 in Somalia, flees at thirteen when sold to be a mans fourth wife. She works as a maid at the Somalian embassy in London, then in a McDonald's where she's discovered and becomes an international top model. Then, in...