The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

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In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and in the long run inspiring story.
 
Nadia Murad was once born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters lived a quiet life. Nadia had dreams of turning into a history teacher or opening her own beauty salon.
 
On August 15th, 2014, when Nadia was once just twenty-one years old, this life ended. Islamic State militants massacred the people of her village, executing men who refused to convert to Islam and women too old to develop into sex slaves. Six of Nadia’s brothers were killed, and her mother soon after, their bodies swept into mass graves. Nadia was once taken to Mosul and forced, in conjunction with thousands of other Yazidi girls, into the ISIS slave trade.
 
Nadia would be held captive by several militants and repeatedly raped and beaten. In the end, she managed a narrow escape through the streets of Mosul, finding shelter in the home of a Sunni Muslim circle of relatives whose eldest son risked his life to smuggle her to safety.
 
Today, Nadia’s story—as a witness to the Islamic State’s brutality, a survivor of rape, a refugee, a Yazidi—has forced the world to concentrate on the ongoing genocide in Iraq. This can be a call to action, a testament to the human will to live on, and a love letter to a lost country, a fragile community, and a circle of relatives torn apart by war.

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