Hello dear Readers,
Below my book review of We Are Displaced by Malala Yousafzai.
Title: We Are Displaced
Rating: 5/5 Stars
Genre: Nonfiction/Autobiography
Author: Malala Yousafzai
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publication Date: January 8, 2019
Publication Date: January 8, 2019
Language: English
Book Description
In her powerful new book, Nobel Peace Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the people behind the statistics and news stories about the millions of people displaced worldwide.
Malala's experiences visiting refugee camps caused her to reconsider her own displacement - first as an Internally Displaced Person when she was a young child in Pakistan, and then as an international activist who could travel anywhere in the world except to the home she loved. In We Are Displaced, which is part memoir, part communal storytelling, Malala not only explores her own story, but she also shares the personal stories of some of the incredible girls she has met on her journeys - girls who have lost their community, relatives, and often the only world they've ever known.
In a time of immigration crisis, war, and border conflicts, We Are Displaced is an important reminder from one of the world's most prominent young activists that every single one of the 68.5 million currently displaced is a person - often a young person - with hopes and dreams.
My Thoughts
We always hear stories about the Refugees. What you see on social media or the News.
However, when you read it from the very people that has suffered and continue suffering from having to leave their homes in such painful and cruel circumstances, it does not get any more real than that. That is what makes this book so powerful, because we have the opportunity to hear the story, the real story of why and how, not what can be, could be or may or may not, but what it is, what happened and what is happening.
I have always admired Malala, since I first heard and read her story and now with this book I continue believing what she is doing for girls, for women around the world is very important, those stories we have the chance to know about on this book are powerful, stories people need to read, to understand.
There were times while reading the book, well, pretty much the whole book, when I couldn't help but think most of us on this planet, like me, we are very lucky we have not gone through what the girls on this book went through. I understand it is really easy to say that but after you read this book it really makes you realize that yes, we are lucky.
I cried, yes, because most of the time we are so caught up in our own world, and problems, which is not bad, we need to take care and worry for ourselves but we don't stop to think that other people are going through more painful things. I can't imagine what I would do if one day I would have to leave my home, my family, all that I know because if I dont I could die.
I feel such respect and admiration for all the girls and women on this book. They were able to escape the horrors, they had hope and they believed they could have a better life and more important, they are helping other people going through the same situation. Even though some of them suffered real bad and lost their families but still they have the strength and the desire to help others and continue to fight for a better life even if that means they had to leave everything they knew not by choice but because there was no option.
This book also helped to better understand what Refugees go through by reading the stories on it, and that is it very important to educate ourselves. How we can help and be involved. I did not know for example that people can be displaced, can be refugees in their own countries.
This is a very emotional, powerfull, eye-opening book. The message intended is very clear. More books like this need to be written and known to everybody out there.
Wendy
