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Title	:	Do They Hear You When You Cry
Author	:	Fauziya Kassindja
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 544 pages
Published	:	January 12th 1999 by Delta (first published 1998)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Cultural. Africa. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Feminism

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For Fauziya Kassindja, an idyllic childhood in Togo, West Africa, sheltered from the tribal practices of polygamy and genital mutilation, ended with her beloved father's sudden death.  Forced into an arranged marriage at age seventeen, Fauziya was told to prepare for kakia, the ritual also known as female genital mutilation.  It is a ritual no woman can refuse.  But Fauziya dared to try.   This is her story--told in her own words--of fleeing Africa just hours before the ritual kakia was to take place, of seeking asylum in America only to be locked up in U.S.  prisons, and of meeting Layli Miller Bashir, a law student who became Fauziya's friend and advocate during her horrifying sixteen months behind bars.  Layli enlisted help from Karen Musalo, an expert in refugee law and acting director of the American University International Human Rights Clinic.  In addition to devoting her own considerable efforts to the case, Musalo assembled a team to fight with her on Fauziya's behalf.  Ultimately, in a landmark decision in immigration history, Fauziya Kassindja was granted asylum on June 13, 1996.  Do They Hear You When You Cry is her unforgettable chronicle of triumph.

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Original Title:	Do They Hear You When You Cry
ISBN:	0385319940 (ISBN13: 9780385319942)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Togo

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Fauziya courageously escapes the horrible fate that awaits her--a prison constructed by culture and tradition. She hopefully seeks political asylum in the U.S., and her nightmare actually begins as she's bound in a prison of steel, brutality, and bureaucracy. I read this candid autobiographical story in one night, and I'm not a speed reader! It's suspenseful, depressing, and thought-provoking. Fauziya has a lot to show us about culture, human rights, the nonsensical & hypocritical politics

A touching, emotional and sad story. I like how she describes her childhood back in Togo, but I dont think last 100pages are interesting. The story starts getting boring and predictable. The last chapter is beautiful. Overall, I like it.

A solid 4 star read. At first, I was very hesitant to pick up this book because of its length (over 400 pages) and I thought the legal aspects of it would depress or bore me. However, it was a really engaging read and far from boring. We meet Fauziya Kassindja. The youngest daughter of a successful merchant in nineties Togo. Her childhood was easy and carefree, surrounded by the people she loved and having all the basic necessities in life taken care of by her father's savvy business dealings.

The US is known as the country of immigrants, but it also has one of the most horrific records of integrating them into mainstream society. This is a story of the 1990s but according to all news reports and statistics, things have not much changed in the USA. To start at the beginning, Fauziya Kassindja started life in Togo in a very patriarchal but loving family (they exist) and was brought up to value education. Her father was against FGM but at the same time, he did not empower his daughters

This book should absolutely be required reading in the western world. Absolutely appalling that immigrants are treated as criminals (and worse because under US law they officially have no rights). This is a devestating story, and I'm glad that Kassindja had the strength to tell it. I want to buy several copies of this book and hand them out to people.One of the most striking statistics in the book was how 50% of illegal immigrants that come to the US are from caucasian countries (such as Poland

As I was reading Fauziya's account of her desperate fight for freedom, I kept wondering how different our country's or the world's response might be if millions of young boys were forcibly castrated as part of their tribal and cultural rituals. Would the world look blindly upon them and dismiss their cries as it does to powerless girls and women? Doubtful!

It is insane, the fuss we make about our hesitancies to address these kinds of issues, because heavens forbid we talk about womanly parts and the types of torture these parts sometimes have to endure; its akin to speaking about the cringe-worthy subject of sexual assault. Lets avoid talking about a procedure that poses serious medical risk and causes psychological trauma to women and girls, because it is not polite conversation and it spoils our morning tea, or because it is only a cultural