Under the Persimmon Tree
By Suzanne Fisher Staples
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Imprint
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN
By Suzanne Fisher Staples
0374380252
Under the Persimmon Tree
Out of stock
SKU
9780374380250J
Najmah is a young Afghan girl fleeing her village after her father and older brother are conscripted by the Taliban and her mother and newborn brother are killed in an air raid. Nusrat is an American woman teaching refugee children and awaiting word of her missing doctor husband, Faiz. The two strangers struggle to survive war on their own-until they meet in the Pakistani border town or Peshawar. Author’s note. Glossary.
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