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Author Lemmon, Gayle Tzemach.

Title The dressmaker of Khair Khana : five sisters, one remarkable family, and the woman who risked everything to keep them safe / Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Harper, [2011]
©2011
1 hold on first copy returned of 1 copy
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1474953~S1
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 95th Street Adult Biography  BIO SEDIQI    AVAILABLE
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Description xxvi, 256 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-253).
Contents The news arrives and everything changes -- A time of good-byes -- Stitching the future back together -- The plan goes to market -- An idea is born--but will it work? -- Class is in session -- An unexpected wedding party -- A new opportunity knocks -- Danger in the night sky -- Epilogue : Kabul Jan, Kaweyan, and Kamila's faith in good fortune.
Subject Sediqi, Kamela, 1977-
Sediqi, Kamela, 1977- -- Family.
Dressmakers -- Afghanistan -- Kabul -- Biography.
Sisters -- Afghanistan -- Kabul -- Biography.
Businesswomen -- Afghanistan -- Kabul -- Biography.
Community life -- Afghanistan -- Kabul -- History -- 21st century.
Kabul (Afghanistan) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
Kabul (Afghanistan) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
ISBN 9780061732379 (hardcover)
0061732370 (hardcover)
9780061732478 (pbk.)
0061732478 (pbk.)
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October 17 2011
SRP 2011 REVIEW: I loved this book. It was very interesting learning about what women had to do to get through the Taliban years in Afghanistan.
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October 14 2011
SRP 2011 REVIEW: The true story of Kamila Sidiqi, an Afgan woman who starts a women's sewing business and changes the lives of the people in har community. Very good.
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