DIGNITY OR DISHONOR? Life is both sweet and cruel to strong-willed young Shabanu, whose home is the wind- swept Cholistan Desert of Pakistan. The second daughter in a family with no sons, she's been allowed freedoms forbidden to most Muslim girls. Y...
On a remarkable day when fish leap among the stars, and bird., mar beneath the waters, a girl is born in the South of India. From her childhood, Parvati is known in her village for the extraordinary events that seem to spring from her dancing feet, ...
A Season of ChangeAlong the Virginia shoreline where their families have lived for generations, Buck and Tunes Smith defy tradition. Raised together like brother and sister, they are bound by surname, but not by skin color. And just as Buck has come ...
It has been ten years since Shabanu staged her death to secure the safety of her daughter, Mumtaz, from her husband's murderous brother. Mumtaz has been raised by her father's family with the education and security her mother desired for her, but wit...
Intertwined portraits of courage and hope in Afghanistan and PakistanNajmah, a young Afghan girl whose name means "star," suddenly finds herself alone when her father and older brother are conscripted by the Taliban and her mother and newborn brother...