Do They Hear You When You Cry? - Fauziya Kassindja Reviews
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Newest Review: ... However, she manages, with the help of some of her family, to escape the country with her fake passport. She escapes to the ... more
... US, but unfortunately gets put in a US prison for illegal imigrants. Here she experiences ill treatment, living amongst many other illegal imigrants in swamped conditions. An angel comes to her in the form of a law student who wants to help her called Layli Miller Bashir.
This book really pulls on your heart strings. Fauziya shows so much courage and through all the bad she is put through shows so much determination. This story opens up your eyes to other peoples worlds in less fortunate countries. Immigration is a ...more
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Customer Do They Hear You When You Cry? - Fauziya Kassindja Reviews (2)
by - written on 15/08/09 (Useful, 13 readings)
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This is a memoir of an African girl from Togo, who when her father dies is set to marry a man from a tribe who has other wives. She has to undergo the tribal cults rules of Female Genital Mutilation. Women of Africa have died from this in the past. However, she manages, with the help of some of her family, to escape the country with her fake passport. She escapes to the US, but unfortunately gets put in a US prison for illegal imigrants. Here she experiences ill treatment, living amongst many other illegal imigrants in swamped conditions. An angel comes to her in the form of a law student who wants to help her called Layli Miller Bashir. This book really pulls ... Read the complete review
by - written on 06/02/06, updated on 06/02/06 (Very useful, 147 readings)
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"Do They Hear You When You Cry" is a true life and modern autobiography of a woman from Togo, Africa, who was forced to flee her homeland and abandoned her family to avoid the customer of Female Gender Mutilation (FGM). I first read of this subject nearly ten years ago, and now, as I think back to that magazine article, and reading the hoorror that our author Fauziya Kassindja faced during the 1990's, I have to wonder if the article I did read was actually the one which was released by Fauziya's lawyers, prior to her release. Kauziya was born in Togo, a tiny African country which has more loyalty to its long-formed tribes than to its more ... Read the complete review
