num_pages: 186
description: This powerful memoir portrays the life-altering transformation of a feisty nomad girl who undergoes genital excision. Crippled with rheumatism as a result of the cutting, Fadumo Korn, who once freely roamed the deserts of her native Somalia, is sent to live with a wealthy uncle, brother to the Somali president. She enters a world of luxury underpinned with political instability and cruelty, but receives an invaluable education. Korn eventually moves to Germany for therapy and recounts her life there—her marriage, the birth of her son, and her involvement in the movement to end genital cutting—with warm and inspiring humor.
language: English
title: Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival
titlecomplete: Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival
genres: Somalia, History, Feminism, Womens, Biography, Memoir, Autobiography, Gender, Africa, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 270
publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY