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The pearl that broke its shell / Nadia Hashimi.
In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school, and can rarely leave the house. Their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh, which allows young Rahima to dress and be treated as a boy until she is of marriageable age. As a son, she can attend school, go to the market, and chaperone her older sisters. But Rahima is not the first in her family to adopt this unusual custom. A century earlier, her great-aunt, Shekiba, left orphaned by an epidemic, saved herself and built a new life the same way.
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- ISBN: 9781410493934
- ISBN: 1410493938
- Physical Description: 667 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
- Edition: Large print edition.
- Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, ©2016.
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| Subject: | Women > Afghanistan > Fiction. Afghanistan. |
| Genre: | Large type books. Domestic fiction. |
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