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Born in the Big Rains : A Memoir of Somalia and Survival (Women Writing Africa)
Born in the Big Rains A Memoir of Somalia and Survival - Women Writing Africa
Author: Fadumo Korn
This powerful memoir portrays the life-altering transformation of a feisty nomad girl who undergoes genital excision. Crippled with rheumatism as a result of the cutting, Fadumo Korn, who once freely roamed the deserts of her native Somalia, is sent to live with a wealthy uncle, brother to the Somali president. She enters a world of luxury under...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781558615311
ISBN-10: 1558615318
Publication Date: 9/2006
Pages: 192
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Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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