souad

When Souad was seventeen she fell in love but on the Arab West Bank sex before marriage stained a family's honor and is punishable by death. Her brother-in-law poured gasoline on her and set her on fire. Miraculously she survived and now lives in exile. She wants the world to know her horrible story.

The author provides an account of her experiences as the victim of an honor crime, telling how her brother-in-law, tried to kill her for having sex before marriage by dousing her with gasoline and setting her on fire, and sharing the story of how she survived with the help of the women of her West Bank village, and the intervention of a European aid worker.