![]() ![]() It’s a theme woven throughout the book, including after she arrived in America and settled in Arlington, Virginia, knowing almost no English. ![]() I felt like I was bigger and stronger than everyone else - even if I knew that wasn’t really the case,” she wrote. In her memoir, written with Rebecca Paley, Omar recounts taking on a much taller boy when she was just 7, rubbing his face in the sand after he picked on someone weaker. Instead, it sketches rugged years that Omar says made her a fearless fighter, unafraid to skirmish with President Donald Trump and her frequent conservative critics. “This is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman,” set for release Tuesday, offers no revelations on some of the controversies that have dogged Omar. Now, Omar is out with a new memoir that offers her own spin on her path to prominence, starting with her childhood in Mogadishu. Ilhan Omar’s metamorphosis from refugee to the first Somali-American in Congress has been well-documented. ![]()
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