The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity and My Fight Against the Islamic State

The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity and My Fight Against the Islamic State - Nadia Murad

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" “The Last Girl” is the story of Nadia Murad, a young Yazidi woman who was kidnapped by ISIS and forced into sexual slavery. The terror that ISIS brought to Murad, her family, and her community is so barbaric, yet illustrates how powerful and well-written “The Last Girl” is.

Murad educates readers about Yazidi history, and how it is defined by its values, community, and its traditions. Unfortunately, it was those same values left the insular Yazidis so vulnerable to an ISIS attack. Murad isn’t just “telling” readers her story, but she is narrating a genocide that she happened to be a part of. In that sense, she is using her voice to speak of other Yazidis who went through what she did. Most enduring was that Murad never lost her will or her strength, which allowed her to be a Nobel Prize-winning activist.

Strong is too trite of a word to describe the power of Nadia Murad’s strength." - Amazon Customer Reviews

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In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story.

Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters lived a quiet life. Nadia had dreams of becoming a history teacher or opening her own beauty salon.

On August 15th, 2014, when Nadia was just twenty-one years old, this life ended. Islamic State militants massacred the people of her village, executing men who refused to convert to Islam and women too old to become sex slaves. Six of Nadia's brothers were killed, and her mother soon after, their bodies swept into mass graves. Nadia was taken to Mosul and forced, along with thousands of other Yazidi girls, into the ISIS slave trade.

Nadia would be held captive by several militants and repeatedly raped and beaten. Finally, she managed a narrow escape through the streets of Mosul, finding shelter in the home of a Sunni Muslim family whose eldest son risked his life to smuggle her to safety.

Today, Nadia's story - as a witness to the Islamic State's brutality, a survivor of rape, a refugee, a Yazidi - has forced the world to pay attention to an ongoing genocide. It is a call to action, a testament to the human will to survive, and a love letter to a lost country, a fragile community, and a family torn apart by war.