It's basically her life story, from birth to age 35 or so. Born in Somalia, lived in Saudi and then for a long time in Kenya. Came to Holland by herself in her twenties to escape an arranged marriage, went on to study political science over here and eventually became a politician whose one and more or less only political cause was the rights of muslim women in Holland. After serving less than one term in parliament, she got tired of the machinations of politics and moved to the US to work for some think tank. She's written 2-3 books (this one was a bestseller) about the plight of muslim women.
She's not a good writer and the book isn't particularly good as literature, but the stories are incredibly disturbing and eye opening. And the culture shock from her Somali family traditions to life in Europe is almost unimaginable.