<>Week 3-Letter<>

Dear Ayaan,

Your book is still excruciatingly slow moving. I am having a hard time focusing on it when there is so much background information. Of course you have to explain a little bit of the history that not everyone knows because they couldn’t be there, but at the same time it doesn’t captivate the audience. I’m really hoping it picks up.
I was very interested about the FGM that you discussed quite at length, considering it was a major event in your life. I even decided to do my world issue on it! I cannot believe what you went through, and that your grandmother would go behind your mother’s back in order to follow tradition. Is tradition really worth all of that pain, humiliation and both emotional and physical scarring? I am proud of your mother for being openly upset with your grandmother, even though she is an elder. In the end, you are your mother’s daughter and for you as a minor it is her duty to protect you and good for her for sticking up for your values, even though in the end you and your peer cousins were cut.
I am really hoping that now that your family has moved outwards from Somalia that things can pick up a little bit. To be dead honest, this book is very difficult to read because it just isn’t very interesting or intriguing!

-C