‘This woman is a major hero of our period.’ -Richard Dawkins

Ayaan Hirsi Ali captured the world’s attention with Infidel, her compelling coming-of-age memoir, which spent thirty-one weeks on the brand new York Occasions bestseller list. Now, in Nomad, Hirsi Ali tells of arriving at America to create a new lease of life, an sea from the loss of life threats made to her by Western Islamists, the strife she witnessed, and the inner conflict she experienced. It’s the story of her physical trip to freedom and, even more about Nomad: From Islam to America: AN INDIVIDUAL Trip Through the Clash of Civilizations crucially, her psychological journey to freedom-her transition from a tribal mind-set that restricts women’s every believed and actions to a life as a free of charge and equal citizen in an open up society. Through tales from the challenges she has faced, she shows the difficulty of reconciling the contradictions of Islam with Traditional western values.

In these pages Hirsi Ali recounts the many turns her life took after she broke with her family, and exactly how she struggled to throw off restrictive superstitions and misconceptions that initially hobbled her ability to assimilate into Western society. She writes movingly of her reconciliation, on his deathbed, with her devout dad, who had disowned her when she renounced Islam after 9/11, as well much like her mother and cousins in Somalia and in European countries.

Nomad is a portrait of a family group torn apart by the clash of civilizations. Nonetheless it is also a coming in contact with, uplifting, and often funny account of one woman’s finding of today’s America. While Hirsi Ali adores a lot of what she encounters, she worries we are repeating the Western european mistake of underestimating radical Islam. She phone calls on key organizations of the West-including universities, the feminist movement, as well as the Christian churches-to enact specific, innovative remedies that would help additional Muslim immigrants to overcome the problems she has skilled and to withstand the fatal allure of fundamentalism and terrorism.

That is Hirsi Ali’s intellectual coming-of-age, a memoir that conveys her philosophy as well as her experiences, and that also conveys an urgent message and mission-to inform the West of the extent of the threat from Islam, both from outside and from within our open societies. A celebration of free talk and democracy, Nomad can be an important contribution to the history of tips, but above all a rousing call to action.