![]() As her symptoms worsen, she journeys to Germany, where she receives not only therapy but love and acceptance from the most unlikely of places.įadumo Korn weaves together a sensitive understanding of traditional practices with revelations about their disturbing effects. She enters a world of luxury underpinned by political instability and cruelty in a country gearing for rebellion. Fadumo first travels to the bustling city of Mogadishu and the household of a wealthy uncle, brother of the Somali president. The complications brought on by the circumcision provide the impetus to her search for health and her story. ![]() ![]() Selected as a Kirkus Reviews top pick for book clubs, Fadumo Korn’s story describes her brutal circumcision at age seven and her agonizing path to physical and psychological recovery.Īs a feisty nomad, Fadumo freely roamed the wild steppes of her native Somalia until her mother delivered her into the hands of an excisor to undergo female genital cutting (FGC, also known as female genital mutilation or FGM), to be made a woman in the eyes of her tribe. indispensable testament.” Elfriede Jelinek, 2004 Nobel Laureate in Literature ![]()
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