This Is What America Looks Like My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

Ilhan Omar

eBook - 2020

Named a Best Political Book of the Year by The Atlantic“This Is What America Looks Like is the origin story of a leader who, finding no set path that would take a person like her to the places she wanted to go, was forced, and free, to chart her own.” –The New York Times Book Review"Ilhan has been an inspiring figure well before her time in Congress. This book will give you insight into the person and sister that I see—passionate, caring, witty, and above all committed to positive change. It's an honor to serve alongside her in the fight for a more just world." —Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-CortezAn intimate and rousing memoir by progressive trailblazer Ilhan Omar—the first African refugee, the first Somali-Ame...rican, and one of the first Muslim women, elected to Congress.Ilhan Omar was only eight years old when war broke out in Somalia. The youngest of seven children, her... more