Two Sisters by Åsne Seierstad; A Moonless, Starless Sky by Alexis Okeowo; Brother in Ice by Alicia Kopf, translated by Mara Faye Lethem.
by Åsne Seierstad, translated by Seán Kinsella (Virago, ISBN 978 0 349 00905 6)
In October 2013, Ayan and Leila – then aged 19 and 16 – voluntarily left their home in Oslo and travelled to Syria to find husbands and support the creation of a new Islamic State. Convinced that they had been brainwashed or kidnapped, their father spent the next two years desperately trying to get them back.
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