NOMAD , BY AYAAN HIRSI ALI, HARPERCOLLINS, $35.
Just 40 years old this year, Somali-born Ayaan Hirsi Ali has already lived many lives: the dutiful Muslim daughter, who was hideously “circumcised” at five; the young woman who fled from an arranged marriage; and the conservative Dutch politician.
Ali has been called brave, but also a traitor and a dangerous apostate – or infidel, as she titled her best-selling memoir. Nomad extends her biting critique of Islam, charting its destructive effect on some family members and within the world. It’s an incendiary book, inviting everyone to pressure Muslims to “open their eyes” to what she asserts are the fundamentally violent principles of the faith. Whatever you think of her, it’s clear Ali won’t be calling off her security detail any time soon.
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