NASSIR Posted November 14, 2009 See the reviews. You'll think the book was written for a non-Somali audience about an important subject from our own perspective. More of Yaasmiin is needed. ""I read Nomad Diaries. At once, it forced me to fall on the floor laughing my head off and other times it forced me to reflect our state of affairs, the cause and effects... I recommend Nomad Diaries to anyone who has a passion for reading, a fiction, which is not only a fiction rather a representation of reality, I mean on peoples lives. If this doesn’t make you dancing like nobody is watching, I have no clue what will make you then " Review by Ali Artan, a friend of mine. "The story is brilliantly constructed, describing as it does the unbearable stresses a Somali refugee family faces in its struggle to remake itself in melting-pot America." Said S. Samatar Ph.D. Professor of history, Rutgers University Editor of Horn-of-Africa journal "A must-read first-and-only novel by and for the post-civil war generation of Somalis coming of age in the United States, Nomad Diaries is a treasure chest—a Pandora’s box of drama, trauma, and elation bubbling just beneath the quizzical refugee grin,and Yasmeen Maxamud is a master narrator of the entwined intergenerational fates of Somalis who fled catastrophe for a Pyrrhic dream." Jesse Mills Ph.D. Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of San Diego http://www.wardheernews.com/Books/Nomad_Diaries-Yasmeen.pdf Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
