A different kind of daughter the girl who hid from the Taliban in plain sight
"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 girls rarely leave their homes. But she did, passing as a boy in order to play the sports she loved, thus becoming a lightning r...
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New York :
Twelve,
2016.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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