We Are Displaced:
My Journey and Stories From Refugee Girls Around the World
by Malala Yousafzai with Liz Welch
“In this powerful book, Nobel Peace Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Malala Yousafzai introduces the people behind the statistics and news stories about the millions of people displaced worldwide.”
– Little Brown Young Readers, January 2019
New York Times Best Seller
REVIEWS
“A stirring and timely book that strips the political baggage from the words “migrant” and “refugee,” telling the deeply personal stories of displacement and disruption that were lived by Yousafzai and nine other girls…. The accounts are intimate, and strike me as honest. At times, it felt as if the narrator were sharing her story with a trusted new friend.”
– Fernanda Santos, New York Times Book Review
“The author devotes only about a quarter of the book to her own story, the remainder is a collection of oral histories from displaced women and girls from countries ranging from Yemen to Colombia to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Each refugee’s tale of survival is equal parts devastating and inspiring, and the narrators do not shy away from the complex, contradictory experiences of fleeing a homeland.”
“Comprising the bulk of the book are urgent, articulate first-person stories from displaced or refugee young women whom Yousafzai has encountered in her travels…. [their] strength, resilience, and hope in the face of trauma is astounding, and their stories’ underlying message about the heartbreaking loss of their former lives and homelands is profoundly moving.”
WORKING WITH LIZ
“Liz helped get all the stories onto the page, no matter what time of day or night it was in her time zone.”
– Malala Yousafzai