Book 2017

The Pearl that Broke Its Shell

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Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 2017

Sisters
Impersonation
Fiction
Women
Fiction, family life, general
Afghanistan, fiction
Girls
Social conditions

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.