The Girl with Three Legs A Memoir Author:Soraya Mire When Soraya Miré was thirteen years old, the girls on the playground would taunt her, saying she could not play with them--not as long as she walked with three legs. Confused and hurt, she went to her mother, who mysteriously responded that the time had come for Soraya to receive her gift. Too soon, Mire discovers the horror of the "gift," femal... more »e genital mutilation (FGM), whereby a young girls' healthy organs are chopped off. In The Girl with Three Legs, Soraya Miré reveals what it means to grow up in a traditional Somali family, where girls' and women's basic human rights are violated on a daily basis. The victim of FGM and an arranged marriage to an abusive cousin, Miré was also witness to the instability of Somalia's political landscape: her father was a general for the military dictator Siad Barres. Miré's tale is a dramatic chronicle of the personal challenges she overcame, a testament to the empowerment of women, and a firsthand account of the violent global oppression of women and girls. Despite the horror she experienced, her words resonate with hope, humanity, and dignity. Her life story is truly one of inspiration and redemption.« less