Desert Flower by Waris Dirie, Cathleen Miller

Desert Flower

Waris Dirie, Cathleen Miller

nonfiction biography memoir challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

240 pages | first published 1998

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Waris Dirie ran away from her oppressive life in the African desert when she was barely in her teens, illiterate and impoverished, with nothing to her name but a tattered shawl. She traveled alone across the dangerous Somali desert to Mogadishu — ...
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Moods

emotional 81%
inspiring 69%
informative 68%
reflective 46%
challenging 40%
sad 34%
hopeful 31%
dark 27%
adventurous 21%
tense 14%
funny 9%
lighthearted 1%

Pace

medium 56%
fast 42%
slow 1%

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