Malala Yousafzai is now using her influence to tell the stories of other girls who have been displaced (the word she prefers rather than refugees, because not all people who have to flee for their lives are necessarily refugees or meet refugee status, meaning, life is much harder for them) to illuminate the need for education for girls and to the many crises that are happening all over the world.

One of the most effective things in this book is that Malala chose stories did not end up "neat". These stories were told "in medias res" because that's the reality of displacement. They talked about leaving behind everything they knew, losing family members, fleeing in the night for their lives...and this is just their normal. None of them thought that this could happen to them. This book had me in tears at work (uh, maybe don't bring this book to work to read) and made me sad, but this is a sadness that I need to be carrying daily. I need to learn to be thankful for the peace that I live in and not take it for granted.

I'm so thankful for Malala and the light that she is bringing into this world. I hope I never forget the women I encountered in this book.