Now in trade paperback, this compelling, critically acclaimed memoir has been a #1 bestseller in Europe, 11 weeks on the NYT bestseller list (as high as #3) and over a month on the Extended list, appeared on the WSJ and other national lists, and received an enormous publicity push in the U.S. Internationally renowned charismatic reformer and sought-after speaker Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been targeted to be murdered for her outspoken efforts to reform Islam and protect Muslim women from violence, repression, and mutilation. In this vivid narrative, she tells her astonishing life story: her childhood in Somalia, her intellectual awakening in Saudi Arabia, and her escape to the West.