TW: child marriage, child abuse, sexual abuse, rape.

This is the story of Nujood Ali, a ten-year-old girl who is sold into marriage to a man thrice her age by her family. Determined to escape her situation, she seeks legal action and demands the court to grant her a divorce. And succeeds!

Nujood's story is unbelievably heartbreaking, but it's also inspirational. As the youngest divorcee ever, she brought international attention to a too often ignored problem - not only in Yemen but all over the world.

Just as Nujood's story shouldn't be romanticized, it shouldn't be used to fuel a single-story narrative of Yemen or the Middle East either. Unfortunately, child marriage is a global phenomenon that should be fought everywhere.

Although the story itself is powerful, the book itself has some shortcomings. It seems to have been written from and for a western gaze, and there are thoughts attributed to Nujood as the narrator that seem to be projections from the ghostwriter Delphine Minoui, from France, and not Nujood's own opinions.