Malala Yousafzai will tell the story of her life in a new memoir, People magazine reports.
Atria Books will publish the activist’s Finding My Way in the fall. The press calls the book “an intimate look at the life of a young woman taking charge of her destiny—and a deeply personal testament to the strength it takes to be unapologetically yourself.”
Yousafzai became an education activist as a child living in the Swat District of Pakistan, which at the time was controlled by the Pakistani Taliban. She wrote about her experiences on a BBC blog, and was the subject of a 2009 New York Times documentary, Class Dismissed.
On October 9, 2012, she and two other girls were shot on a bus in an attempted assassination; she was 15 at the time. The shooting made international headlines, and catapulted Yousafzai into worldwide fame. She published a memoir, I Am Malala, co-written with Christina Lamb, the following year, and in 2014 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
In her new memoir, Atria says, Yousafzai “traces her path from high school loner to reckless college student to a young woman at peace with her past. Through candid, often messy moments like nearly failing exams, getting ghosted and meeting the love of her life, Malala reminds us that real role models aren’t perfect—they’re human.”
Yousafzai shared news of her new book on Instagram, writing, “It’s a story of friendship and first love, of mental health and self-discovery, of trying to stay true to yourself when everyone wants to tell you who you are. This is not the story you think you know. It’s the one I’ve been waiting to tell.”
Finding My Way is slated for publication on October 21.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
