Who is Mary from the book, I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World?

Mary is a Masai girl living in Kenya. When her father wants to sell her to an old man for a dowry of five cows and a calf, Mary chooses a different future for herself and runs away. Throughout the year she spends at the safe-house, she becomes less scared, more confident, and she blossoms. When she is reunited with her family, she is relieved and surprised and thrilled that her father will let her come back into the family. He agrees not to sell her or insist on genital her mutilation, and this goes for her sisters as well.