The Pearl That Broke Its Shell

By Nadia Hashimi

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About the book

Debut Afghan-American author Nadia Hashimi’s THE PEARL THAT BROKE ITS SHELL, the entwined stories of two Afghan women separated by a century who find freedom in the tradition of bacha posh, which allows girls to dress and live as boys…until they are of marriageable age.

Pages: 480

Available in: Paperback

Language: English

Nadia Hashimi

Nadia Hashimi’s parents left Afghanistan in the 1970s, before the Soviet invasion that led to decades of war. She was raised in the U.S. and in 2002 made her first trip to Afghanistan with her parents. Hashimi is a pediatrician and lives with her family in the Washington D.C. suburbs.