I am reviewing a copy of The Last Girl through Crown Publishing and Netgalley:
Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in Northern Iraq. She and her family were members of the Yazidi community and lived a normal life. Nadia dreamed either of being a history teacher or opening her own Beauty Saloon.
August.15.2014 the life she had once known ended. Islamic state militants massacred men who refused to convert to Islam and women to old to become Sex Slave among the murdered were six of her brothers and not long after her Mother was killed too their bodies thrown into mass graves. Nadia was taken to Mosul and forced into the Isis Slave Trade along with thousands of other Yazidi girls.
Nadia was held captive by several militants and repeatedly raped and beaten until she narrowly managed to escape through the streets of Mosul. She would find shelter with a Sunni Muslim family whose oldest son risked his life to bring her to safety.