Naked Tree

A collection of raw, visceral, and emotionaly charged poems depicting Nadia's arduous journey growing up in a highly patriarchal environment where boys are idealized, and girls are marginalized. The poems unravel complex emotions of shame, betrayal, confusion, defeat, love and heartbreak. The catalyst for Nadia's feminist views was when she lost her only childhood friend to an arranged marriage at age eleven. Things had to be different for herself, but that hasn't been easy.