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Title A different kind of daughter : the girl who hid from the Taliban in plain sight / Maria Toorpakai with Katharine Holstein.
Author Toorpakai, Maria, 1990-
Publication Info. New York : Twelve, 2016.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  796.343 TOORPAKAI    Check Shelves
Edition First edition.
Description viii, 355 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
Subject Toorpakai, Maria, 1990-
Women squash players -- Pakistan -- Biography.
Squash players -- Pakistan -- Biography.
Passing (Identity) -- Pakistan -- Biography.
Escapes -- Pakistan -- Biography.
Taliban.
Women's rights -- Pakistan -- Biography.
Women -- Pakistan -- Social conditions -- Biography.
Women athletes -- Pakistan -- Social conditions -- Biography.
Pakistan -- Social conditions -- Biography.
Added Author Holstein, Katharine.
ISBN 1455591416 (hardcover) : $27.00
9781455591411 (hardcover)
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