The bite of the mango by mariatu kamara

A twelve-year-old's hands are hacked off by rebel soldiers in Sierra Leone's civil war, and her survival becomes a testament to resilience over despair. Walking to a neighboring village, Mariatu is captured by rebel fighters, many of them children themselves, and tortured and maimed in an act meant to terrorize her community into compliance. Stripped of her hands and left to survive on her own, she eventually finds her way to a refugee camp and then to begging on Freetown's streets, before a chance of fate brings her to Canada, where she rebuilds her life and becomes a UNICEF advocate for children in armed conflict. Written with journalist Susan McClelland and featuring a foreword by Ishmael Beah, the book is told in plain, unsentimental language that lets the horror and the resilience both speak for themselves, and it became a key text alongside Beah's memoir in introducing English-language readers to the realities of Sierra Leone's civil war.

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