My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird Ages 6 and up The New York Times Book

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from the slave trade

in this one-of-a-kind memoir

Torn between her work and home

his only options are on the wrong side of the law

My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird Ages 6 and up The New York Times BookA landmark collection: the first anthology of short fiction by Afghan women that are "powerful, profound, and deeply moving" (Elif Shafak, author of The Island of Missing Trees, a Reese's Book Club pick)"My pen is the wing of a bird; it will tell you those thoughts we are not allowed to think, those dreams we are not allowed to dream."Eighteen Afghan women living in, speaking about, and writing from the country itself tell stories that are powerful