Description:In August 2014, Farida was, like any ordinary teenager, enjoying the
last days of summer before her final year at school. However, her
peaceful mountain village in northern Iraq was an ISIS target as their
genocide against the Yazidi people began.
The catastrophe
ISIS
murdered the men and boys in the village, including Farida's father and
brother, and took the women hostage. Farida was one of them. She was
held in a slave camp, in the homes of ISIS members and finally in a
desert training camp. Continually she struggled, resisted and fought
against her captors, showing unimaginable strength and bravery.
This is my story
Eventually,
Farida managed to plot her escape and fled into the desert with five
young girls in her care, but defeating ISIS was just the first step in
her journey. In this book she tells her remarkable and inspiring story