Malala's coming-of-age memoir offers an unfiltered glimpse into her life

With wisecracks, misadventures, and tales of first love, Malala Yousafzai takes charge of her own story, offering the world an unfiltered glimpse into her life

Finding My Way

by Malala Yousafzai

Published by

Weidenfeld & Nicolson

305 pages ₹699

  For more than a decade, Malala Yousafzai has existed in the public imagination as a symbol rather than a person. She has been described as heroic, an icon of girls’ education, even saintly. Just as often, she has been dismissed as a carefully crafted narrative. Finding My Way, her latest book and her most revealing, sets out to answer a quieter question: Who is Malala to herself?

 

Ms Yousafzai, now 28, writes from a distance that her earlier books did not afford her. I Am Malala, co-written with journalist Christina