class reading # 3

2.5
hours
67-163


When a girl becomes of age they go though a surgery. In their religion they think that going thought with it make them pure, so when Annay and hawneya and their old bother Mahad became of age they went though with the surgery. the surgery is they cut of their genitals and sow up the whole. but they leave a little place for ligid to come out. Their grandmother was the one that made this happen. Their mother and father do not believe in it, they think that it is barbaric. But they couldn't do anything about it though because mother was of on a trip and father was in jail. After that day Hayneya her little sister was never the same again
One day their mother came home so happy, happier then she has been in a long time. They all new that this meant that father got out of jail. On one would say anything to them, because they wanted them to be dumb if the wrong people came asking. So later on that year they moved to go meet their father and live together as a family. They ended up going to Ethiopia, there they meet they father.
After living there for a while the ended up moving to Kenya. Their mother hated the idea the people in Kenya were unbelievers. but she had to do has her husband say, that is they law. they father enrolled them all in school. Annay wasn't really good at getting good grades and for that she got beaten by the teacher and her mother wouldn't do anything about it. In her eyes she deserved it. Thing were going well until there father went out for the night and didn't come home until the next week. After one more month their mother grew tired of it and told him if he went out that door that he should never come back and he did.
When their father had been gone for about 4 years Mahad dropped of the deep end, no one knew what to do they him. So they decide to send him to their father. After Mahad had left things got worse Annay started get beaten by her mother worse and worse. she could never could do anything that made her mother happy it only made her mad and on top of that her took her and Hawnaye out of school and had a man teach them. One day she and her sister locked themself in the bathroom and wouldn't come out for school that day. They tried everything to get them out but they finally gave up. Annay and hawnaye came out of the bathroom when they thought that everyone was gone. Hawnaye left to hang out when friends and Annaye started cleaning the house, she didn't want to get beat for not cleaning but when she went out side to close the gate, her teacher gaped her by the hair, he had come back and he had help. After they had finshed they left her on the ground bleed and badly hurt. When her mother come back that night her started to beat her too for not cleaning the house. and that almost killed her. after that day her mother didn't beat her for 4 more years.
Thing were going all wrong her sister had stopped believing and now she was moving to be with their bother and father. so she was left to live with her mother and grandmother. During the month her sister was gone Annay became a deeper believe, but when it gets deeper into the months that Hawnaye was gone she started to question it a bet. When her sister come home she was so happy to Finally have her back, she missed her so much.
This book has so many things to learn. We get to see how people grew up and lived.