This is the memoir of Nadia Murad, a Yazidi-Iraqi woman who was abducted, enslaved, and sexually exploited by the Islamic State in Iraq at the age of 21. Murad is one of the thousands of people from the Yazidi minority who were tortured or killed during the ISIS insurgency in Iraq between 2014 and 2017 - an event recognized as a genocide by the United Nations. Murad lost 18 members of her family, including her mother and 6 brothers.

In this incredibly powerful book, Murad details her story, her pain, and her resilience. As difficult as it might be to read or listen to it, it comes nowhere close to how hard it must be for her - and other victims of war atrocities - to tell and relive their stories. It is titled 'The Last Girl' as Murad hopes she is the last girl to have a story like her own.