Naked Tree

Naked Tree book is a collection of 100 raw visceral and emotionally-charged poems depicting the authors arduous journey growing up in a highly patriarchal environment where boys were idealized and girls marginalized. Her experience with this double standard was carried through many of her relationships including her marriage.The poems unravel complex emotions of shame betrayal loneliness confusion defeat love heartbreak and the occasional triumphs.The catalyst for Nadias feminist views was when she lost her only childhood friend to an arranged marriage at age eleven. Things had to be different for herself but that hasnt been easy.