![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While I don’t know every person who might come across this blog review, just the fact that you are able to read this means you are literate and have some access to the internet. I am, by world standards, incredibly privileged. Any small portion of this book could be seen as remarkable, but the fact that it all happened and she stood to tell the tale is a miracle. Bashir’s life is a true story that reads like a novel. This memoir was quite difficult to summarize. This is her story of survival among unspeakable horrors. Unfortunately, she lived in Darfur and was a witness to the genocide there. Combined with hard work, her luck held as she was able to gain an education (unusual for a village girl) and even became a top national scholar, gaining a rare admittance into medical school. Halima Bashir was an unusually lucky girl from birth, when her white eyelash was a good omen. One World Trade Paperbacks, Ballantine Books, Random House, New York, 2009.Īdult memoir, 335 pages including extras. Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur by Halima Bashir, with Damien Lewis. ![]()
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