A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight

by Maria Toorpakai and Katharine Holstein

Book Overview

"Maria Toorpakai is a true inspiration, a pioneer for millions of other women struggling to pave their own paths to autonomy, fulfillment, and genuine personhood." --Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed

Maria Toorpakai hails from Pakistan's violently oppressive northwest tribal region, where the idea of women playing sports is considered haram-un-Islamic-forbidden-and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1455591416
• ISBN13: 9781455591411
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Twelve
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"