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Elise Evans, an American citizen, was raised from the age of three by her American mother and Saudi stepfather as a Saudi girl in Saudi Arabia. Her upbringing in Saudi culture is a terrifying tale of systemic oppression and a young girl's yearning for freedom against all odds. In Triumph, Elise delivers a raw, gripping, and dark account of life inside a closed system designed to deprive women of their basic human rights. Packed with vivid, often surprising insights into Saudi society and laced with heartbreaking moments of survival, her memoir takes readers on a journey of loss, endurance, resistance, and liberation. Learn the secrets of khitbah that led to Elise's betrothal in marriage at age six and the Male Guardianship Law, which rendered her a permanent minor without basic rights. Elise suffered years of confinement, sexual abuse, physical and mental trauma, and the constant suppression of her basic rights. Her pilgrimages to Mecca, constantly hiding from the police, and her story of buying a Barbie on the ""black market"" are well documented. Elise lived a secret life, hidden from the Western world by an oppressive regime hell-bent on keeping millions of women trapped in a real-life Handmaid's Tale. Today Elise, often referred to as the Katniss Everdeen of Saudi Arabia, is known internationally as a fierce advocate for women's rights. She speaks out against honor killings, torture, victim shaming, and systemic repression. Her three younger Saudi sisters and many dear friends are still caught in the system she finally escaped at age thirty. This book is her testimony and the capstone of her continued activism to see all women of Saudi Arabia set free.

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Elise Evans has spoken globally, worked with the United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS), led human resources for UNHCR's MENA region, and worked in media before becoming a successful CEO. She now lives in the land of the free--the United States--and uses her voice to fight for those women who still suffer under the brutality of the Saudi regime.

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