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Author Salh, Shugri Said, 1975-

Title The last nomad : coming of age in the Somali desert, a memoir / Shugri Said Salh.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2021.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2093645~S1
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Description 296 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Nomads -- Galkayo -- Ageless desert flower -- Carrying out tradition -- Orphanage -- The outside world -- Beautiful Mogadishu -- Journey -- Goodbye, Mogadishu -- Garissa -- Nairobi -- The promised land.
Summary A fresh, captivating memoir about an indomitable woman's journey from her idyllic childhood with her nomadic grandmother in the deserts of Somalia to her escape from her country's brutal civil war and eventually to America. -- Provided by publisher.
Subject Salh, Shugri Said, 1975- -- Childhood and youth.
Nomads -- Somalia -- Biography.
Refugees -- Somalia -- Mogadishu -- Biography.
Nomads -- Biography.
Refugees -- Biography.
Mogadishu (Somalia) -- Biography.
Somalia -- Emigration and immigration.
Genre Autobiographies.
Added Title Coming of age in the Somali desert, a memoir
ISBN 9781643750675
1643750674
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