The Pearl That Broke Its Shell

Adopting the custom of bacha posh in 2007 Kabul, which allows her to dress and be treated as a boy, attend school and ch... (more)

Adopting the custom of bacha posh in 2007 Kabul, which allows her to dress and be treated as a boy, attend school and chaperone her sisters until she is of marriageable age, Rahima, the daughter of a drug-addicted father, discovers that she is not the first in her family to adopt this unusual custom. (less)