Dessert Flower.. Book review:)

In school- Re and geog.
We read Dessert flower.
The book follows a girl who left home and ended up going to london which there she got a job in a modelling agency. The book is a true story.
It was amazing how Waris Dire (the girl in the book) the way her life was like in Samoli, hearding the animals, feeding them etc. But I was amazed at her father trying to get her to marry an elderly man, I know it can be in the culture that she lived in, but to me, no it creeps me out how someone can make a 12 yr old marry a 60 yr old man! But she is only worth 5 camels..
When it came to how she got circumcised, it shouldn't be done to children at such a young age, its not right, but it shouldn't be done in the first place! Girls don't deserve that torture and the physical pain the get in adult life. I understand where they are coming from that the girls need to be pure for their husbands but proving it in that way isn't right at all.
Being unhappy at home, she ran away to London england, which there a photographer from a modelling agency gave her his card as she was walking her Uncles and Aunts child to school, she was a maid for them, until they left for home. With that Waris refused to leave England, so she worked in Mc Donalds to support herself whilst living in a youth hostel, eventually she calls up the photographer and went down to the agency, there they took pictures and put make-up on her. From there on she became a world renowned model known all over the world.
With this it gave her the advantage to speak out about female circumcision.