Title The pearl that broke its shell / Nadia Hashimi.

Publication Info.	New York : William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2014]
	©2014

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Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction	FICTION HASHIMI	Check Shelf
Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department	F HASHIMI, N.	Storage
Bristol, Main Library - Adult Fiction	F HASHIMI	Billed
Bristol, Manross Branch - Adult Fiction	F HASHIMI	Check Shelf
Burlington Public Library - Adult Department	FIC HASHIMI	Check Shelf
Canton Public Library - Adult Department	FICTION HASHIMI	Check Shelf
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Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department	F HASHIMI	Check Shelf
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Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department	F HASHIMI	Check Shelf

Edition	First edition.
Description	452 pages ; 24 cm
Summary	In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school, and can rarely leave the house. Their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh, which allows young Rahima to dress and be treated as a boy until she is of marriageable age. As a son, she can attend school, go to the market, and chaperone her older sisters. But Rahima is not the first in her family to adopt this unusual custom. A century earlier, her great-aunt, Shekiba, left orphaned by an epidemic, saved herself and built a new life the same way. Crisscrossing in time, the novel interweaves the tales of these two women separated by a century who share similar destinies. But what will happen once Rahima is of marriageable age? Will Shekiba always live as a man? And if Rahima cannot adapt to life as a bride, how will she survive?
Subject	Girls -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
	Sex role -- Afghanistan -- Fiction.
	Impersonation -- Fiction.
	Children of drug addicts -- Fiction.
	Sisters -- Fiction.
	Afghanistan -- Fiction.
	Children of drug addicts. (OCoLC)fst01430026
	Girls -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00942908
	Impersonation. (OCoLC)fst00968149
	Sex role. (OCoLC)fst01114598
	Sisters. (OCoLC)fst01119758
	Afghanistan. (OCoLC)fst01205406
	Afghanistan.
Genre/Form	Domestic fiction.
	Domestic fiction.
	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
ISBN	9780062244758 (hardcover)
	0062244752 (hardcover)
	9780062244772 (e-book)

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