The Last Girl

My Story of Captivity and My Fight Against the Islamic State

By: Nadia Murad, Jenna Krajeski, Amal Clooney - introduction

Narrated by: Ilyana Kadushin

`Telling my story of first, surviving genocide and then, as a captive of ISIS is not easy, but people must know.' The remarkable and courageous story of Nadia Murad, a twenty-three-year-old Yazidi woman who is working with Amal Clooney to challenge the world to fight ISIS on behalf on her people.

With a foreword by Amal Clooney

A Nobel Peace Prize nominee and the first Goodwill Ambassador the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking of the United Nations and winner of the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize, Nadia Murad is a courageous young woman who has endured unimaginable tragedy (losing eighteen members of her family) and degradation through sexual enslavement to ISIS. But she has fought back.

This inspiring memoir takes us from her peaceful childhood in a remote village in Iraq through loss and brutality to safety in Germany. Courage and testimony can change the world: this is one of those books.

Critic reviews

The Last Girl offers powerful insight into the barbarity the Yazidi suffered alongside glimpses into their mystical culture . . . this is an important book by a brave woman, fresh testament to humankind's potential for chilling and inexplicable evil

Courageous . . . Anyone who wants to understand the so called Islamic State should read The Last Girl

This devastating memoir unflinchingly recounts her experiences and questions the complicity of witnesses who acquiesced in the suffering of others

Nadia Murad has put a human face on one of the world's most complicated and intractable conflicts

Her book is sobering - and an inspiration

A harrowing memoir... Intricate in historical context... The Last Girl leaves readers with urgent, incendiary questions

Murad gives us a window on the atrocities that destroyed her family and nearly wiped out her vulnerable community. This is a courageous memoir that serves as an important step toward holding to account those who committed horrific crimes

This is likely the most inspiring feminist memoir out this year

A devastating yet ultimately inspiring memoir that doubles as an urgent call to action

Brilliant and intense... a clear-eyed account of ISIS's cruelty

Powerful... A heartbreaking elegy to a lost community

Touching story but narration was distracting

It’s A very touching story but
Sometimes narrators voice was a bit too dramatic, which distracted from the story. This could be the case when its better to
Read the book than to listen to it.

Get your sheltered teen-agers to read this

Describes a world that is full of nuance, inhabited by humans, not angels and demons.

At the beginning Nadia is grateful for the simple small blessings she has as a poor yazidi in a remote village, for example for being able to go to school.

It describes horrible events without being needlessly horrifying.

I wish all the privileged, sheltered teen-agers around me would read this and get some perspective.