Not once did Zana stop fighting “she never allowed them to break her spirit, not with the endless work, the beatings, the diseases, the mental cruelty, the rapes or the agonies of childbirth in the raw.” Zana surpassed all this hardship and for that I believe she is one of strongest woman I have ever had the pleasure of learning from. Zana’s determination to survive was and still is inspiring. I was so compelled I read this book in two sittings. Zana’s journey of eight years of slavery was compacted into 240 pages. The way this book was written I felt like I was a part of the story, I cringed, I smiled and I even shed a few tears. Yes this book had a few grammatical errors but that didn't stop me feeling the emotions that backed each and every word. The men are a law unto themselves.” Well, after reading this book I don't have to imagine any of this, I felt it. They are completely within the power of the men in their families. The two innocent girls believed they were going on “a holiday of a life time.” Imagine their horror when they realized their lives no longer belonged to them imagine how they felt knowing they would never again possess any kind of freedom imagine a “medieval world where the women have virtually no rights and absolutely no control of their lives.

Zana and her younger sister, Nadia, were sold by their own horrifically worthless father as wives to two fourteen year old boys in the Yemen. From the hype this story created it’s hard to believe everything that was said is true, but once you read the book yourself you’ll understand it is real, this stuff does happen and unfortunately there's not much we can do about it. Once this book was released governments went to war, high ranking officials from various countries came to Zana’s aid and the social media only had eyes for this captivating tale.

This book was written in 1992 and received immediate attention from all over the globe. Along with her ghost writer, Andrew Crofts, Muhsen tells her true account of modern day slavery. 'SOLD'is a true story authored by a strong-willed force to be reckoned with.

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