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The Pearl That Broke It's Shell
Afghanistan, fiction
Impersonation
freedom
Coming of age
Courage
Identity
Survival
Fathers and daughters
Girls
Sex role
Sisters
Family life
Women
Social conditions
Fiction, general
Fiction
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 a…
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