She blows her dreams into the universe like feathers in the whirl wind and struggles with her fate on the roads she took to avoid it. She thinks her Azad is trapped by ISIS with thousands of other Yazidi families at the slopes of Mount Shingal. Nazo must escape slavery to join her lover. On a dusty August day, ISIS men drag her out of her village together with Sarah, her little deaf mute sister, to be traded as sex slaves. Nazo is an eighteen-year old Yazidi girl from Shingal in Iraqi Kurdistan. Would the baby have the blue eyes of Azad Saydo her forbidden lover, or the dark black eyes of the ISIS fighter who had raped her? Nazo is dying to know. Before the flames catch her curly hair, she feels something magical-a motion inside her womb. With focused determination, she strikes the matchstick against the box. The odor of the kerosene fills her shallow breaths. Once inside, she raises the heavy jerry can over her head. Wearing her white gown, Nazo walks toward the bathroom.
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