My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird Ages 6 and up Torn between her work and

Torn between her work and home

from the slave trade

she hops on the next train downtown

Freedom from morning till night to go out to meet their friends and make the streets their playground--jumping double Dutch

My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird Ages 6 and up Torn between her work andA landmark collection: the first anthology of short fiction by Afghan women that are "powerful, profound, and deeply moving" (Elif Shafak, author of The Island of Missing Trees, a Reese's Book Club pick)"My pen is the wing of a bird; it will tell you those thoughts we are not allowed to think, those dreams we are not allowed to dream."Eighteen Afghan women living in, speaking about, and writing from the country itself tell stories that are powerful