The girl from foreign : a search for shipwrecked ancestors, forgotten histories, and a sense of home
(2008)
By:
Shepard, Sadia
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
MEMOIR/SHEPARD,S
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Penguin Press, [2008]
©2008
©2008
DESCRIPTION
364 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781594201516 (alk. paper), 159420151X (alk. paper), 9780143115779 (pbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
pt. 1. Storytelling -- pt. 2. Fieldwork -- pt. 3. Departures
In this beautifully crafted memoir, a young Muslim-Christian woman travels to an insular Jewish community in India to unlock her family's secret history