Two Sisters: A Father, His Daughters, And Their Journey Into The Syrian Jihad

"This is a true story pulled from the headlines: Two Somali sisters living in Oslo, Norway, run away to fight with the Islamic State in Syria, and their dad tries to find them and bring them home. You understand the girls’ perspectives through essays they wrote in school, conversations with their family members and online chats they had with friends. Through exhaustive research, journalist Åsne Seierstad tries to shed light on how two well-adjusted immigrants got wrapped up in the Syrian civil war."