You will soon, Fauziya, her aunt replied.
Today s the day.
Don t worry about the circumcision. We won t do that today. We ll wait until Wednesday for that. The higher court involved in the case opened the way for other women who might be fleeing FGM to seek asylum in the United States, putting the United States into the vanguard among countries that recognize this a valid human rights issue. When You Cry seems to be a fairly straightforward institutional horror story, about an African woman who flees to America to escape female genital mutilation at the hands of her tradition-bound family in Togo and ends up imprisoned for more than a year in the United States as an illegal immigrant.