It's very lovely to read about.īut this memoir is not just about Nujood alone. The things she went through made her maturer than her peers, but she still kept her curiosity as a child, and the eagerness to learn. I believe Delohine Minoui did a lot of rendering of the book, but I appreciated that the writing kept Nujood's 10-year-old perspective and understanding of the world and family. And I was amazed at how courageous Nujoob was at an age of 10, to have the determination of fighting for her own life, as well as her siblings. In a lot of cases, the girls are a lot younger than the legal age of marriage. In this book, I was struck by the fact that how the decisions of early marriage, for girls in particular, were commonly and casually made in Yemen. Without realizing what was happening and what is marriage, she was hurried to marry off a man who is three times her age, and a nightmare began. When Nujood found out her father has arranged a marriage for her, she was only 10 years old or younger, enjoying her innocent childhood and school life.
Nujood grew up in this land, but her stories do not rhyme with the gorgeous image of Yemen, nor do the stories of other child brides. Nujood's story was unflooded with an overview of Yemen, the "magical land with legends as astonishing as its houses, which are adorned with such delicate tracery that they look like gingerbread cottages trimmed with icing", which has another name means "Happy Arabia".
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