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The Pearl That Broke Its Shell

By Nadia Hashimi

William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers · 2014

In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school and 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.

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