Freedom The Story of My Second Life Author:Malika Oufkir Stolen lives, Malika Oufkir's intensely moving account of her twenty years imprisoned in a desert jail in Morocco, was a surprise international bestseller. — In her highly anticipated follow-up, Malika reflects on the life she lived before and during incarceration and how dramatically the world had changed when she emerged. Malika was born into ... more »extreme privilege as the daughter of the king of Morocco's closest aide, and she grew up in the palace as companion to the Moroccan princess. But in 1972, her life of luxury came to a crashing halt. Her father and her family were locked away for two decades. After a remarkable escape, Malika and her family returned to the world they'd left behind, only to find it transformed.
Living for the first time as an adult, Malika writes candidly about adjusting to the world - from negotiating ATMs to the excesses of shopping malls, to falling in love and learning to be intimate. When she is finally free, motherhood becomes crucial to Malika's ability to fully live her life: she becomes the legal guardian of her niece, then she and her husband adopt a baby boy from Morocco. Full of insight and piercing observations, as well as humor, Freedom is as masterful and thought-provoking as Oufkir's astonishing debut.« less