Kantharaye Kusuma

Waris Dirie ran away from her oppressive life in the African desert when she was barely in her teens illiterate and impoverished with nothing to her name but a tattered shawl. She traveled alone across the dangerous Somali desert to Mogadishu—the first leg of a remarkable journey that would take her to London where she worked as a house servant - then to nearly every corner of the globe as an internationally renowned fashion model - and ultimately to New York City where she became a human rights ambassador for the UN. Desert Flower is her extraordinary story.