This book was gorgeously done. For such a harrowing and heartbreaking period, the author brought out a hope for the future in so many ways. A family for one. Redemption for another. And a new, replacement daughter for the third. These three women are from such different backgrounds and stages of life, but they each have a coming of age story here that brings them together in the end. The structure was so creative, following them separately but simultaneously together to start, then each women's separate journey towards the inevitable, and ending with their eventual joining. With such different viewpoints of the same events, one can really get an idea of how the currents in Somalia at the time were ebbing and flowing around each other. And while showing such disaster and destruction and death, the author manages to also portray why any given person would want to keep fighting and rise above the atrocity. Beautifully written and intensely felt.