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THE EVER UNTITLED:
NORAH'S STORY
.....is a story of
a young East Indian woman, the daughter of a doctor who migrated
to Ethiopia to help the poor there. As a young child,
she's bright, precious and a bit of a dreamer, until at the
age of
eight she experiences the ritual horror of female genital
mutilation.. At the age of 13 she is married to a husband
who betrays her in the worst possible way. While in
advanced stages of her pregnancy her husband sells her for
alcohol to a gang of four men who rape her, causing her to
lose one of the twins she is carrying. While her
experiences would break a weaker person, through it all she
eventually emerges with a sense of serenity derived from
running away and raising her surviving baby daughter in
South Africa....
Years later with her daughter, a
bright and gregarious teenager in whom Norah sees herself as
she once was, the two return to Ethiopia to try and educate
the women about the horror the mother experienced.
However, her precious daughter is kidnapped and subjected to
the same horror which she doesn't survive. The mother,
more determined than ever to make sure the story of the
plight of thousands of women like herself is told, returns to South
Africa to continue with her life's mission to fight
against this atrocity...
Written in the first person, Ms.
Das has captured Norah's raw, heart wrenching emotions with
an incisive clarity that will make one weep for her and
rejoice at her strength to overcome the horrors she
experienced in her young life......
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