Daughter of Dust : Growing Up an Outcast in the Desert of Sudan Condition:Good Lina Broud

Lina Broud

more chock-full of devastating man quotes than Oscar Wilde with two wangs

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the guilt associated with losing interest in something you used to love and the challenge of explaining "what you do" to others

Daughter of Dust : Growing Up an Outcast in the Desert of Sudan Condition:Good Lina BroudA beautifully written memoir of growing up abandoned in the desert city of Khartoum. Leila understands from early on that she is not part of normal Sudanese society. Her parents are unable to care for her, so she is banished to a strict orphanage, along with children born outside marriage. At school, Leila and her best friend Amal are called 'daughters of sin'. Her pretty sister, Zulima, is married off to a much older man, while the nannies say an