Do They Hear You When You Cry?
by Fauziya Kassindja
Published: 1998
This is Kassindja’s memoir of her struggle for freedom, beginning with a narrow escape from forced marriage and female genital mutilation as a young woman in Togo to seeking asylum in the US and suffering 14 months in the Elizabeth Detention Center and other jails, before winning the very first asylum case based on FGM. Her story is both terrifying and inspiring, one of those you cannot believe until you read.
