Unbowed

For most of humanity’s history, family has been the cultural cornerstone of a society and the primary support system for the individual. Yet, right now, there are places in the world where women and girls aren’t safe within their own families—places where women live in perpetual fear; where conceiving a female child is a curse on the family, and sexual pleasure for women is considered indecent. Imagine then what it’s like for the protagonist of UNBOWED, Yemen born, Basma Abseh, who is from a culture that kills their women and girls for any perceived taint on the family.

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