My Sins Upon You All

If Betty Balsam's purpose was to bring to light a horrible mutilation practice still going on in today's world, she really has done wonderfully. But this book is about so much more than that as well. It's about oppression of women, so strong and so very factual in many ways that it will make you shudder. In trying to express Sarah Sultan's tremendous task of instituting schools for females and males, Ms. Sultan does a fine job of teaching us, the readers, how very difficult life is for women in the Middle East. The only reason I gave this book four and not five stars, is because of it's poor editing. Spelling and grammar leave a tremendous lot to be desired, and can take the reader's eyes off the flow of the moment, it's disconcerting. At times the use of phrases that are spoken wrong actually add to the flavor, but mostly the many spelling errors are bothersome. Still, I have just finished another book by this lady, and that story is fabulous also. I will definitely add her to my list of favorite authors.

I like this book, it was slow starting out, but it turned out to be well written and interesting. I found the story line to be somewhat cheesy (The idea of a multimillion dollar woman in her twenties suffering to make her parents dream of free refugee education a reality seems unrealistic). It was well written and very good considering the story line. In my opinion it was not as good as The Crescent Moon but still competes as a good read. I recommend this book.