Do they hear you when you cry- Fauziya Kassindja

Q13) How has the writer used their own personal life in what you have read?

This novel is non fiction that means it's a true story. Fauziya Kassindja has put her personal life in to this novel by talking about her religion, family, traditions in her home country and the way she lived.   Fauziya Kassindja was islamic and is from Tongo, she is the youngest out of the family. The reason she fled to America was because her dad passed away and her Aunt got her a husband and before she gets married she has  to go under female circumcision. On trying to flee the country she is caught at the immigration country and is arrested and put in jail.  She has been in Jail for quit a while and she has given up hope. She became friends with a law student  Layli Miller Bashir, and she is trying to get her out. During the case she wanted to go back home. The case they even mentioned the tradition of woman circumcision, and that it's not right, in the end after all that fighting they won the case. She tells in the end that the people in her tribe are good people but people do bad things, and that if something is tradition does not make it right.