![]() ![]() Now Rahaf Mohammed tells her remarkable story in her own words, revealing untold truths about life in the closed kingdom, where young women are brought up in a repressive system that puts them under the legal control of a male guardian. The teenager reached out to the world, and the world answered-she gained 45,000 followers in one day, and those followers helped her seek asylum in the West. As men pounded at the door of her barricaded hotel room, she opened a Twitter account. If forced to return home, she was sure she would be killed, like other rebel women in her country. ![]() In early 2019, after three years of careful planning, Rahaf Mohammed finally escaped her abusive family in Saudi Arabia-but made it only to Bangkok before being stripped of her passport. A gripping memoir of bravery and sacrifice by a young woman whose escape from her abusive family and an oppressive culture in Saudi Arabia captivated the world. ![]()
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