num_pages: 364
description: A search for shipwrecked ancestors forgotten histories and a sense of home Fascinating and intimate The Girl from Foreign is one woman's search for ancient family secrets that leads to an adventure in far-off lands. Sadia Shepard the daughter of a white Protestant from Colorado and a Muslim from Pakistan was shocked to discover that her grandmother was a descendant of the Bene Israel a tiny Jewish community shipwrecked in India two thousand years ago. After traveling to India to put the pieces of her family's past together her quest for identity unlocks a myriad of profound religious and cultural revelations that Shepard gracefully weaves into this touching eye-opening memoir.
language: English
title: The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Forgotten Histories, and a Sense of Home
publisher: Penguin Press HC, The