TheUndergroundGirlsofKabul_InSearchofaHi.epub

Copyright © 2014 by Jenny Nordberg All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York. www.crownpublishing.com CROWN and the Crown colophon are registered trademarks of Random House LLC. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nordberg, Jenny. The underground girls of Kabul: in search of a hidden resistance in Afghanistan / Jenny Nordberg.—First edition. pages cm 1. Gender Identity—Afghanistan. 2. Sex role—Afghanistan. 3. Male impersonators— Afghanistan. 4. Women—Afghanistan—Social conditions. 5. Girls—Afghanistan—Social conditions. I. Title. HQ1075.5.A3N67 2014 305.309581—dc23 2014000295 ISBN 978-0-307-95249-3 Ebook ISBN 978-0-307-95251-6 Jacket design by Alison Wright/Corbis v3.1 To every girl who figured out that she could run faster, and climb higher, in pants This story was reported from Afghanistan, Sweden, and the United States between 2009 and 2014. Most of the book’s events take place in 2010 and 2011. I have told the stories of the characters as they have ......