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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. Genre:  Autobiographies. Other authors:  Holstein, Katherine. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Biography 796.343092 T672d Adult books Adult Display 1 Add Copy to MyList Tantallon Public Library Adult Biography 796.343092 T672d Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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