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Toorpakai, Maria, 1990-
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Toorpakai, Maria, 1990-
Women squash players -- Pakistan -- Biography.
Women squash players -- Canada -- Biography.
Women athletes -- Pakistan -- Biography.
Women athletes -- Canada -- Biography.
Sex role -- Pakistan -- Biography.
Women's rights -- Pakistan.
Pakistani Canadians -- Biography.
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Toorpakai, Maria, 1990-
Women squash players -- Pakistan -- Biography.
Women squash players -- Canada -- Biography.
Women athletes -- Pakistan -- Biography.
Women athletes -- Canada -- Biography.
Sex role -- Pakistan -- Biography.
Women's rights -- Pakistan.
Pakistani Canadians -- Biography.
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A different kind of daughter : the girl who hid from the Taliban in plain sight /
Maria
Toorpakai
; with Katherine Holstein.
by
Toorpakai
,
Maria
,
1990-
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada, 2016.
Call #:
796.343092 T672d
Subjects
Toorpakai
,
Maria
,
1990-
Women squash players -- Pakistan -- Biography.
Women squash players -- Canada -- Biography.
Women athletes -- Pakistan -- Biography.
Women athletes -- Canada -- Biography.
Sex role -- Pakistan -- Biography.
Women's rights -- Pakistan.
Pakistani Canadians -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780670069989 (hc.)
Description:
viii, 355 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
Maria
Toorpakai
was born to a Pashtun family in 1990 in South Waziristan in Pakistan's violently oppressive northwest tribal region, where women are forbidden from playing sports and girls rarely leave their homes. But she did, chopping off her hair and passing as a boy in order to play the sports she loved, thus becoming a lightning rod in her country's fierce battle over women's rights.
Maria
's harrowing journey to play the sport she knew was her destiny, first living as a boy and roaming the violent back alleys of the frontier city of Peshawar, rising to become the number one female squash player in Pakistan. For
Maria
, squash was not only liberation, though it was also a death sentence, thrusting her into the national spotlight and the crosshairs of the Taliban, who wanted
Maria
and her family dead.
Maria
knew her only chance of survival was to flee the country. Enter Canadian squash player Jonathon Power, who heeded
Maria
's plea for help. He invited
Maria
to train and compete internationally in Canada. Now, living in Toronto,
Maria
is well on the way to becoming world champion and continues to be a voice for oppressed women everywhere. A story about equality, courage, determination, parents' love, and the ability to turn to what is best in us to fight against what is worst in the world.
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Autobiographies.
Other authors:
Holstein, Katherine.
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