This woman is a major hero of our time Richard Dawkins Ayaan Hirsi Ali captured the world s attention with Infidel, her compelling coming of age memoir, which spent thirty one weeks on the New York Times bestseller list Now, in Nomad, Hirsi Ali tells of coming to America to build a new life, an ocean away from the death threats made to her by European Islamists, the s This woman is a major hero of our time Richard Dawkins Ayaan Hirsi Ali captured the world s attention with Infidel, her compelling coming of age memoir, which spent thirty one weeks on the New York Times bestseller list Now, in Nomad, Hirsi Ali tells of coming to America to build a new life, an ocean away from the death threats made to her by European Islamists, the strife she witnessed, and the inner conflict she suffered It is the story of her physical journey to freedom and, crucially, her emotional journey to freedom her transition from a tribal mind set that restricts women s every thought and action to a life as a free and equal citizen in an open society Through stories of the challenges she has faced, she shows the difficulty of reconciling the contradictions of Islam with Western values In these pages Hirsi Ali recounts the many turns her life took after she broke with her family, and how she struggled to throw off restrictive superstitions and misconceptions that initially hobbled her ability to assimilate into Western society She writes movingly of her reconciliation, on his deathbed, with her devout father, who had disowned her when she renounced Islam after 9 11, as well as with her mother and cousins in Somalia and in Europe Nomad is a portrait of a family torn apart by the clash of civilizations But it is also a touching, uplifting, and often funny account of one woman s discovery of today s

• Title: Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations
• Author: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• ISBN: 9781439171820
• Page: 113
• Format: ebook