avg_rating: 3.59
name: Yasmeen Maxamuud
about: My name is Yasmeen Maxamuud, I live in beautiful San Diego California. I am the author of Nomad Diaries. Writing relaxes me and I love to share stories that capture the family and their daily challenges, struggles, sharing and caring and tragedy. Coming from a poetic society where proverbs, parables and idioms are part of daily language, in my writing I attempt to bring that poetic oral language on the page as much as one can transfer such a beautiful oral tradition into the page. It’s challenging, and I am constantly learning. But I love reading books that are vastly different from my own, and every time I pick a book there is a take away. I am new to Goodreads, so anyone who can review my book would be a great way to begin my adventure he My name is Yasmeen Maxamuud, I live in beautiful San Diego California. I am the author of Nomad Diaries. Writing relaxes me and I love to share stories that capture the family and their daily challenges, struggles, sharing and caring and tragedy. Coming from a poetic society where proverbs, parables and idioms are part of daily language, in my writing I attempt to bring that poetic oral language on the page as much as one can transfer such a beautiful oral tradition into the page. It’s challenging, and I am constantly learning. But I love reading books that are vastly different from my own, and every time I pick a book there is a take away. I am new to Goodreads, so anyone who can review my book would be a great way to begin my adventure here. I am working on my next project, which is a trilogy featuring African paranormal…it’s really spooky, funny and very different from anything you have read before. I love to cook a healthy variation of Somali food, which is fusion between Indian food, and Middle Eastern food (by the way I am willing to share some delicious Sambusa with anyone who agrees to review my book on goodreads… lool). I don’t experiment much with unfamiliar food although I have had camel milk and camel liver this summer when I went on book tour to Somalia. (Not to worry I made it back safely).Other than that, I love to travel to that random place called Africa (by the way people it’s not a country, it’s a continent.) I have been there twice since July and I love sharing what America has thought me with students there. I find the exchange amazingly rich and nurturing, of course most of my students don’t know I am a natural incubator for their poetry, dances, and art. Nomad Diaries is available on Amazon.com.One of the reasons I wrote Nomad Diaries is to highlight the reasons behind the endless chaos that has become the norm in Somalia. Nomad Diaries centers around the Gedi family, who has exchanged a life of privilege on the white beaches of Mogadishu for one of urban blight in America as refugees. Nomad Diaries is a book that captures the essence of being an immigrant in America. The story presents personal struggle, violence, forbidden love, youthful hubris, culture shock, and the will to withstand life’s daily challenges. You can contact me at:Namadiaries@gmail.comwww.nomaddiaries.comFacebook Nomad DiariesTwitter #nomadinamerica What are people saying about Nomad Diaries? By Professor Jesse Mills of University of San Diego Yasmeen Maxamuud is a master narrator of the entwined intergenerational fates of Somalis who fled catastrophe for a Pyrrhic dream. Nomad Diaries masterfully captures the ebullience of the life of a Somali immigrant family featured by Nadifo, the main character, who tries to cope with the double-edged sword of American dream and American tragedy. Yasmeen writes with forensic clarity and deft understanding of Somali women in the Diaspora. Readers of Nomad Diaries will witness the birth of a star: a writer who has a talent to spare and a penchant for pungent language. A Tale of Desperate Housewives--cross that--Refugees, August 6, 2011By blueocean - See all my reviewsThis review is from: Nomad Diaries (Paperback)This novel is a page -turner! I could not put it down. It has enough material for a television series that would make the Desperate Housewives look like sweet folks! The central character is an egotistic, self-righteous, mean woman called Nadifo who brings pain and suffering to her family because she only knows one way of doing things--the old way. The story may be set in a recent Somali refugee settlement in the US and the conflict-ridden, war-torn Somalia, but it could have easily been anywhere in the world with similar circumstances. The pains and joys that are expressed are universal. For all those romantics out there, there is no fairy tale ending but it is definitely a good read.Lauren L. Sw ...more