The Relationship between Author and Text

Mariatu's book is based off of her struggles in Sierra Leone. In The Bite of the Mango she tells how rebels attacked her village, and killed many people. Also how they brutally cut off her hands. It shows her ongoing struggle on living with no hands, and trying to leave Africa and move to the U.S. The book doesn't really show her life after meeting Ishmael, and going to classes in Canada learning english.