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X-WR-CALDESC:True Story Book Club\n\nDaring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awake
 ning by Manal al-Sharif (320 pages)\n\nManal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca th
 e second daughter of a taxi driver\, born the year strict fundamentalism t
 ook hold. In her adolescence\, she was a religious radical\, melting her b
 rother’s boy band cassettes in the oven because music was haram: forbidden
  by Islamic law. But what a difference an education can make. By her twent
 ies Manal was a computer security engineer\, one of few women working in a
  desert compound built to resemble suburban America. That’s when the Saudi
  kingdom’s contradictions became too much to bear: she was labeled a slut 
 for chatting with male colleagues\, her school-age brother chaperoned her 
 on a business trip\, and while she kept a car in the garage\, she was forb
 idden from driving on Saudi streets.\n\nManal al-Sharif’s memoir is an “ey
 e-opening” (The Christian Science Monitor) account of the making of an acc
 idental activist\, a vivid story of a young Muslim woman who stood up to a
  kingdom of men—and won. Daring to Drive is “a brave\, extraordinary\, hea
 rtbreakingly personal” (Associated Press) celebration of resilience in the
  face of tyranny and “a testament to how women in Muslim countries are hel
 ping change their culture\, one step at a time” (New York Journal of Books
 ).\n
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DESCRIPTION:True Story Book Club\n\nDaring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awaken
 ing by Manal al-Sharif (320 pages)\n\nManal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the
  second daughter of a taxi driver\, born the year strict fundamentalism to
 ok hold. In her adolescence\, she was a religious radical\, melting her br
 other’s boy band cassettes in the oven because music was haram: forbidden 
 by Islamic law. But what a difference an education can make. By her twenti
 es Manal was a computer security engineer\, one of few women working in a 
 desert compound built to resemble suburban America. That’s when the Saudi 
 kingdom’s contradictions became too much to bear: she was labeled a slut f
 or chatting with male colleagues\, her school-age brother chaperoned her o
 n a business trip\, and while she kept a car in the garage\, she was forbi
 dden from driving on Saudi streets.\n\nManal al-Sharif’s memoir is an “eye
 -opening” (The Christian Science Monitor) account of the making of an acci
 dental activist\, a vivid story of a young Muslim woman who stood up to a 
 kingdom of men—and won. Daring to Drive is “a brave\, extraordinary\, hear
 tbreakingly personal” (Associated Press) celebration of resilience in the 
 face of tyranny and “a testament to how women in Muslim countries are help
 ing change their culture\, one step at a time” (New York Journal of Books)
 .\n
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SUMMARY:True Story Book Club: Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
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