Jameela

‘Come Jameela. Stand right here. I need to do something.’
I grab hold of his sleeve. ‘Where are you going?’
His face is twisted. He doesn’t look at me.
‘Never mind.’

Jameela lives with her family in a war-torn village in Afghanistan. Life is hard, but when her mother dies, and her father remarries, Jameela has to face a greater horror. To survive she draws on the strong sense of self that her mother gave her.