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Desert Dawn

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This is an amazing read. I actually came across this book while doing research for a college composition on female genocide and mutilation. Waris Dirie tells a heartbreaking story, and makes for a real page-turner. I read this book in two days and I couldn't put it down. I definitely recommend it.

This is a fantastic book.For man also.Waris gave so many feelings,humour inside that you can not take this book out of hand.

The sequel to Desert Flower; it is an amazing story and the continuation of the first adventure. It reaveals how other people live in our world. It is an easy read. I finished it in two days. This book will give you lots to debate at the dinner table.

This book was most useful to me by showing the life of a tribal family in Somalia from the viewpoint of someone who has experienced western life but is still sensative to the viewpoint of tribal nomadic life. It provides a really interesting insight rarely seen.

This book show me the incredible journey that Ms. Dirie went through. And no matter how she lived throughout her life she could not forget how she was raised. Great book

Waris Dirie is my favority author. I think she writes honestly about her life experiences and gives a different perspective than the average writer does. I would recommend everyone read this book.

Once started to read I just couldn't stop. Just so amazing how Waris was caught between her home in somalia and New York. I support her courage

Desert Flower was a fantastic book giving insight into a culture that blindly follows old fashioned and cruel rituals. Desert Dawn however repeats most of Desert Flower and just gives a bit of additional information about the further life of Waris. Sadly enough Waris has not learned much from her own mutilation, which she documents in circumcising her own son. Waris seems to forget that women play an important role in culture and rituals through upbringing and education of their own children. Circumcision and mutilation is not in nature's nor in any god's plan, otherwise they would have taken care about it.