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I Choose My Beginning: A Story of Courage and Activism by Nadia Murad

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Nadia is a fierce warrior for justice and a beautiful human being I feel privileged to know. She will inspire women for generations. —Amal Clooney

In a lyrical and profoundly moving memoir, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Girl and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad reclaims her extraordinary journey from ISIS captivity to becoming a global human rights activist, from the embers of devastation to a fight for freedom—and for what comes next when a young girl's flame cannot be extinguished.

In 2014, Nadia Murad was living in northern Iraq when her world was shattered. Fighters from the so-called Islamic State attacked her village, massacring hundreds—including her mother and six of her brothers—and forcing her, along with thousands of Yazidi women and girls, into ISIS's system of sexual slavery.

In I Choose My Beginning, Nadia brings these two selves together. With honesty and grace, she transforms the pain of her past into a life defined not by what was done to her, but by strength, perseverance, and the freedom to choose happiness.

Nadia is a fierce warrior for justice and a beautiful human being I feel privileged to know. She will inspire women for generations. —Amal Clooney

In a lyrical and profoundly moving memoir, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Girl and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad reclaims her extraordinary journey from ISIS captivity to becoming a global human rights activist, from the embers of devastation to a fight for freedom—and for what comes next when a young girl's flame cannot be extinguished.

In 2014, Nadia Murad was living in northern Iraq when her world was shattered. Fighters from the so-called Islamic State attacked her village, massacring hundreds—including her mother and six of her brothers—and forcing her, along with thousands of Yazidi women and girls, into ISIS's system of sexual slavery.

In I Choose My Beginning, Nadia brings these two selves together. With honesty and grace, she transforms the pain of her past into a life defined not by what was done to her, but by strength, perseverance, and the freedom to choose happiness.

  • Publisher: Summit Books

    Title: I Choose My Beginning: A Story of Courage and Activism

    Author: Nadia Murad

    On Sale Date: September 15, 2026

    ISBN 13: 978-1-6680-9705-2

    ISBN 10: 1-6680-9705-2

    Format: Hardcover

    Retail Price: $29.00

    BISAC: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Activists; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women

    Page Count: 304

  • Nadia Murad was a young woman in the Yazidi village of Kocho, in northern Iraq, when ISIS fighters attacked in August 2014, killing her mother and six brothers and forcing her into the group's system of sexual slavery. After escaping, she turned her testimony into a global campaign: she became the United Nations' first Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking, founded Nadia's Initiative to rebuild communities devastated by genocide, and in 2018 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize alongside Dr. Denis Mukwege for their work to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war. Her first memoir, The Last Girl, became a New York Times bestseller and introduced her story to millions of readers. In I Choose My Beginning, written again with Jenna Krajeski, Murad picks up where that story left off—not as a survivor defined by what happened to her, but as the architect of what came next.

  • Critics are calling it inspiring, honest, and moving:

    • "An inspiring story of a woman fighting to create a life that's all her own." — Kirkus Reviews

    • "Nadia is a fierce warrior for justice and a beautiful human being I feel privileged to know. She will inspire women for generations." — Amal Clooney

This book is for you if

  • You read The Last Girl and want to know what Nadia Murad's life looks like now, years past ISIS captivity.

  • You want a firsthand account of surviving genocide and sexual slavery, told with honesty rather than sensationalism.

  • You're drawn to memoirs of activism—how a survivor became a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a founder of a real humanitarian organization.

  • You want to understand the Yazidi genocide through the story of the woman who helped make the world pay attention to it.

  • You believe survival stories should end somewhere other than the trauma itself—in choice, strength, and a life reclaimed.

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