The Girl from Foreign by Shepard, Sadia

The Girl from Foreign (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143115779)

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The Girl from Foreign by Shepard, Sadia

The Girl from Foreign

$24.00
The Girl from Foreign by Shepard, Sadia

The Girl from Foreign

$24.00
Format: Paperback
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A search for shipwrecked ancestors, forgotten histories, and a sense of home

Fascinating and intimate, The Girl from Foreign is one woman's search for ancient family secrets that leads to an adventure in far-off lands. Sadia Shepard, the daughter of a white Protestant from Colorado and a Muslim from Pakistan, was shocked to discover that her grandmother was a descendant of the Bene Israel, a tiny Jewish community shipwrecked in India two thousand years ago. After traveling to India to put the pieces of her family's past together, her quest for identity unlocks a myriad of profound religious and cultural revelations that Shepard gracefully weaves into this touching, eye-opening memoir.

Author: Sadia Shepard
ISBN-10: 0143115774
ISBN-13: 9780143115779
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2009
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.36h x 5.48w x 0.83d
By Sadia Shepard
By Sadia Shepard
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Sadia Shepard is a documentary filmmaker and writer who lives in New York City. She graduated from Wesleyan University in 1997, from the Graduate Program in Documentary Film and Video at Stanford University in 2000, and began her work with the Bene Israel community of India while on a Fulbright Scholarship. This is her first book.

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