Lipstick in Afghanistan
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"Gripped by haunting magazine images of starving refugees, Elsa has dreamed of becoming a nurse since she was a teenager. Of leaving her humble working-class Boston neighborhood to help people whose lives are far more difficult than her own. No one in her family has ever escaped poverty, but Elsa has a secret weapon: a tube of lipstick she found in her older sister's bureau. Wearing it never fails to raise her spirits and cement her determination. With lipstick on, she can do anything, even travel alone to war-torn Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11."--from publisher description.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Gallery Books, 2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: 284 p. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781439191385
1439191387
SUBJECTS
Nurses -- Fiction.
Afghan War, 2001- -- Fiction.
Americans -- Afghanistan -- Fiction.