The Pearl That Broke It's Shell by Nadia Hashimi is a novel about the lives of Afghan women in the present day and 100 years ago. It is a complex and often tragic story.
Rahima, born into a family of all girls, is turned into a boy in the custom of bacha posh, and is given previously unimaginable freedom. It all ends when she turns 13 and is married to a man old enough to be her grandfather. Her only hope is in the story of her great-great grandmother Shekiba, told to her by her aunt.
Beautifully written, but hard to read tale of life in modern day Afghanistan, that has improved very little for women in the last century.
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