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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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The Alterations Lady: An Afghan Refugee, an American, and the Stories That Define Us

The Alterations Lady: An Afghan Refugee, an American, and the Stories That Define Us

Miller, Cindy
Shahwali, Lailoma

Hardcover

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ISBN10: 1954641303
ISBN13: 9781954641303
Publisher: Apollo Publishers
Published: Oct 29 2024
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Winner! Next Generation Indie Book Award for Biography


Two women. One exhilarating story of displacement and perseverance in the face of extremism. What happens when we take the time to listen?


When the journalist Cindy Miller met Lailoma Shahwali, who was altering her daughter's wedding dress, she assumed their interactions would be brief. But in Lailoma she found not just a seamstress, but a survivor who would open up about her remarkable experiences in her native Afghanistan. In recollections shared over warm tea with cardamom, frozen walnuts, and mulberries, Lailoma offers both an entry into a colorful pre-Taliban Afghanistan, where, despite being a girl, she pursued an education and worked toward becoming a doctor, as well as a stark portrait of what came next, when the Taliban seized her beloved country, stripped her of her hard-won rights, terrorized her family, and brutally murdered her husband.

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