Tale of a Boon's Wife

Set in Somalia just before the civil war, Tale of a Boon's Wife by Fartumo Kusow is the story Idil, the daughter of a general, who falls in love with Sidow, a man considered beneath her family’s social status. She defies her father’s threats and her mother’s pleas by eloping with him. This sets off......more

Tale of a Boon's Wife is a masterful piece of storytelling encompassing family, loyalty, love, and tribal differences. Idil, from the Bliss tribe in Somalia, finds herself in love with a Boon boy and defies her culture and parents when she decides to run away and marry him. Through being disowned by......more

This is an emotion filled story of a woman's life as she goes from young girl to middle age in a land where females are subservient, and woman's rights all but non-existent. It struggles with tribal barriers, civil war, rape, and a multitude of dysfunctional family issues that challenge the heroine,......more

A man's dirt is his woman's wash,always. If a statement like that does not make you cringe, I wonder what your reaction would be to the many more utterances by characters in this book who dream of hope, but find themselves bound by their gender, religion, status and societal expectations. Set fiftee......more

Idil, a young girl in Somalia, is the daughter of a general and whose family is of the dominant Bliss tribe. Her older brother is a sadistic creep and her younger brother has a heart as big as her own. Her mother does what is expected of her, repeating all the toxic masculinity brainwashing that goe......more