The daughter of a politically powerful Sunni family, she explains that she knew from the time she was young that Saudi women were to be little more than “bodies shrouded in black bags.” In harrowing depictions, Mohammed details how, as she grew, so too did the prohibitions and violent punishments one particularly disturbing passage recounts her being repeatedly punched by her mother after being outed by a classmate for having relationships with girls. Mohammed, who garnered international headlines as a teenager in 2019 when she fled Saudi Arabia and was detained by authorities in Thailand, recounts her daring path to liberation in this potent debut.
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