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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2016.
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Table of 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.
