Omar got into fights in middle school to show she wasn’t afraid, she writes, and she describes incidents in which she choked one boy until he foamed at the mouth and kept hitting another girl even after being told the girl was pregnant.
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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