i felt that washappening in otr areas in the middle east that would affect girls lives and maybe through my simple story they can see something and how to survive in a w zone. that's why i wrote it. >> charlie: ts is an auto biographic novel. >> absolutely yes. >> charlie: why not just write it as autobiography. >> i was too young to do it as an autobiography. at the same time it has many layers and a lot of things that affected me psychologically and emotionally. i needed some distance to process it so i wrote it reallies a third person. took that rate story of my mother. my mother was raped by her stepfather. she ran away and she commit suicide when i was five. took through these painful moments of my life, i needed not only the distance, i needed also to put it out so i can heal myself through writing. i didn't years before when i arrived at the orphanage, with my sister, i was five, she was four. the only way i could put her to shape was to tell her stories. i didn't realize i was becoming a writer thin. i became the storyteller of the whole class of the whole school. i discovered i