A Different Kind of Daughter : : the Girl who hid From the Taliban in Plain Sight
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Prologue: A Prophecy -- One: Between the Mountains -- Two: The Mullah -- Three: An Unlikely Bride -- Four: Genghis Khan -- Five: Bhutto's Muse -- Six: The Wall -- Seven: The City of Guns -- Eight: Deities, Temples, and Angels -- Nine: Out of the Tribal Lands -- Ten: The Capital of Empires -- Eleven: I Am Maria -- Twelve: Playing Like a Girl -- Thirteen: Smoking Scorpions -- Fourteen: Rupees for My Mother -- Fifteen: The Giver of Treasure -- Sixteen: Number One -- Seventeen: In the Crosshairs -- Eighteen: Purdah -- Nineteen: Breakbone Fever -- Twenty: Liberty Bell -- Epilogue: One Thousand Marias.
Coming from a Pakistani tribal region where women playing sports is forbidden, the author discusses how she passed as a boy in order to be an athlete, thus becoming a lightning rod for women's freedom in her country.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Twelve, 2016.
Year Published: 2016
Description: viii, 355 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781455591411
1455591416
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Holstein, Katharine.
SUBJECTS
Toorpakai, Maria, -- 1990-
Taliban.
Women squash players -- Pakistan -- Biography.
Squash players -- Pakistan -- Biography.
Passing (Identity) -- Pakistan.
Escapes -- Pakistan.
Women's rights -- Pakistan.
Women -- Pakistan -- Social conditions.
Women athletes -- Pakistan -- Social conditions.
Pakistan -- Social conditions.