The Ever Untitled: Norah's Story

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, precocious 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......