Named a ';Best Book of the Year' by New York Post
';Farida Khalaf's story is harrowing but crucialespecially when it comes to understanding what ISIS actually is and does.' Glamour
';As gripping as it is appallinga compelling testament to the suffering of ordinary people caught up in violence far beyond their controland to the particularly terrible price it exacts from women.' The Guardian
A young Yazidi woman was living a normal, sheltered life in northern Iraq during the summer of 2014 when her entire world was upended: her village was attacked by ISIS. All of the men in her town were killed and the women were taken into slavery.
This is Farida Khalafs story.
In unprecedented detail, Farida describes her world as it wasat nineteen, she was living at home with her brothers and parents, finishing her schooling and looking forward to becoming a math teacherand the hell it became. Held in a slave market in Syria
