The Girl with Three Legs: A Memoir

by Soraya Mire and Eden O'Neill

Book Overview

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. Miré too soon discovers the horror of the "gift," female genital mutilation (FGM), whereby a young girl's healthy organs are chopped off not only to make her acceptable...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569767130
• ISBN13: 9781569767139
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.0"