The writing skills are more than adequate but not at a 5 star level, but little else could push me to cut this one from the full load reward. Good Earth, and Snowflower and the Secret Fan territory here.Halima tells her own life's story in this non-fiction memoir of her girlhood in Darfur and the...
Oof this was hard to read, emotionally and psychologically. The beginning of Dr. Halima Bashir's story is clearly a story of privilege, with a very progressive father who wanted his smart daughter to become a doctor. As she grows up and faces discrimination, she tries to keep her head down and ig...
It was the morning of December 23, just two days prior to what I now know and celebrate as Christmas Day. I was helping my mother prepare a breakfast of acidah mash. My father, my brothers, and my little sister were sitting nearby waiting to eat, before spending their day in the fields, or in my ...