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Daughter of Dust  is a biographical book about Leila Aziz, a Sudanese orphaned girl, raised among other children in her condition in the “Institute for the Protected”, in which no one was really protected. The Hard Truth Ignored by Many As she grows, Leila wants to lead a normal life and be respected by the world. Subjects like female mutilation and the punishment for having sex out of wedlock, among others, are exposed by the eyes of a child who oftentimes doesn't really understand what is happening. It hurts This story calls out against the way women are treated in Sudan. For that, Wallace refuses to write it overly sentimentally; she describes what's happening in a crude and direct way that makes us shocked and angry. Any change in Leila's life is a new possibility, and you will wish for her to succeed and find a safer place. Never Stop Fighting  Along its pages, Leila fights for what she believes in and wants and never lets her birth condition dete...