Finding my way : a memoir / Malala Yousafzai.

By:

Yousafzai, Malala, 1997- [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781668054277
1668054272

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Autobiographies.

DDC classification:

371.822095491 B 23/eng/20251003

LOC classification:

LC2330 .Y67 2025

Summary: "How do you rebuild yourself when your whole world changes overnight? Thrust onto the public stage at fifteen years old after the Taliban's brutal attack on her life, Malala Yousafzai quickly became an international icon known for bravery and resilience. But away from the cameras and crowds, she spent years struggling to find her place in an unfamiliar world. Now, for the first time ever, Malala takes us beyond the headlines in Finding My Way--a vulnerable, surprising memoir that buzzes with authenticity, sharp humor, and tenderness. Finding My Way is a story of friendship and first love, of anxiety and self-discovery, of trying to stay true to yourself when everyone wants to tell you who you are. In it, Malala traces her path from high school loner to reckless college student to a young woman at peace with her past. Through candid, often messy moments like nearly failing exams, getting ghosted, and meeting the love of her life, Malala reminds us that real role models aren't perfect--they're human. In this astonishing memoir, Malala reintroduces herself to the world, sharing how she navigated life as someone whose darkest moments threatened to define her narrative--while seeking the freedom to find out who she truly is. Finding My Way is an intimate look at the life of a young woman taking charge of her destiny--and a deeply personal testament to the strength it takes to be unapologetically yourself"-- Provided by publisher.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Adult Book	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	Adult Non-Fiction	New Books	920 YOU	Checked out	01/05/2026	36748002626929

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! | A USA TODAY BOOK OF 2025

"A remarkably intimate and insistently human chronicle of a moral authority's coming of age." -- The New York Times

This is not the story you think you know. It's the one I've been waiting to tell.

Thrust onto the public stage at fifteen years old after the Taliban's brutal attack on her life, Malala Yousafzai quickly became an international icon known for bravery and resilience. But away from the cameras and crowds, she spent years struggling to find her place in an unfamiliar world. Now, for the first time ever, Malala takes us beyond the headlines in Finding My Way --a vulnerable, surprising memoir that buzzes with authenticity, sharp humor, and tenderness.

Finding My Way is a story of friendship and first love, of anxiety and self-discovery, of trying to stay true to yourself when everyone wants to tell you who you are. In it, Malala traces her path from high school loner to reckless college student to a young woman at peace with her past. Through candid, often messy moments like nearly failing exams, getting ghosted, and meeting the love of her life, Malala reminds us that real role models aren't perfect--they're human.

In this astonishing memoir, Malala reintroduces herself to the world, sharing how she navigated life as someone whose darkest moments threatened to define her narrative--while seeking the freedom to find out who she truly is. Finding My Way is an intimate look at the life of a young woman taking charge of her destiny--and a deeply personal testament to the strength it takes to be unapologetically yourself.

"How do you rebuild yourself when your whole world changes overnight? Thrust onto the public stage at fifteen years old after the Taliban's brutal attack on her life, Malala Yousafzai quickly became an international icon known for bravery and resilience. But away from the cameras and crowds, she spent years struggling to find her place in an unfamiliar world. Now, for the first time ever, Malala takes us beyond the headlines in Finding My Way--a vulnerable, surprising memoir that buzzes with authenticity, sharp humor, and tenderness. Finding My Way is a story of friendship and first love, of anxiety and self-discovery, of trying to stay true to yourself when everyone wants to tell you who you are. In it, Malala traces her path from high school loner to reckless college student to a young woman at peace with her past. Through candid, often messy moments like nearly failing exams, getting ghosted, and meeting the love of her life, Malala reminds us that real role models aren't perfect--they're human. In this astonishing memoir, Malala reintroduces herself to the world, sharing how she navigated life as someone whose darkest moments threatened to define her narrative--while seeking the freedom to find out who she truly is. Finding My Way is an intimate look at the life of a young woman taking charge of her destiny--and a deeply personal testament to the strength it takes to be unapologetically yourself"-- Provided by publisher.

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Kirkus Book Review

A global activist entwines personal and public trials and tribulations to uncover more complicated and magnificent understandings of both. The Taliban's attack on Yousafzai was not only an act of message-sending violence that launched its victim into the epicenter of an international movement. It was also a private experience of trauma for an adolescent girl and her family and friends. In her new book, Yousafzai wrests her narrative back from the public imagination, where she has been both sanctified and vilified, depending on audiences and agendas. Centered on her years as a student at Oxford, the author's story unfolds from a closed circle of surveillance and high expectations--products partly of her notoriety and partly of her culture--into a tale of deeply relatable human joy and pain. These eventful years include her long-wished-for return to Pakistan, her first love, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the removal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. With so many inflections, the image of Yousafzai as possessing unparalleled confidence, ability, and power rubs against the ostensibly simpler dreams and insecurities of a young woman struggling to balance schoolwork with new friendships, fashion freedom, and midnight adventures. She recounts insecurities and feelings of awkwardness, loneliness, and stress, nudging her reader to consider the fragility of the individuals we hurl onto the pedestals of saintly activism. For Yousafzai, the fate of persecuted girls worldwide seems to hang in the balance of every decision, celebration, and setback, but the nightmares of personal memory and experience demand her attention and care. In her candid attempts to wrestle with both, she positions herself as an authentic, enduring voice not only on girls' education, but also on topics such as mental health, the institution of marriage, the value of friendship, and the nature of risk and reward. An earnest, charming, and empathetic memoir from a woman as determined as her younger self. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.