num_pages: 288
description: Internationally bestselling author Nadia Hashimis first novel for young readers is an emotional beautiful and riveting coming-of-age journey to modern-day Afghanistan that explores life as a bacha posha preteen girl dressed as a boy.Obaydas family is in need of some good fortune.Her father lost one of his legs in a bomb explosion forcing the family to move from their home city of Kabul to a small village where life is very different and Obaydas father almost never leaves his room.One day Obaydas aunt has an idea to bring the family luckdress Obayda the youngest of her sisters as a boy a bacha posh.Now Obayda is Obayd.Life in this in-between place is confusing but once Obayda meets another bacha posh everything changes. The two of them can explore the village on their own climbing trees playing sports and more.But their transformation wont last foreverunless the two best friends can figure out a way to make it stick and make their newfound freedoms endure.
language: English
title: One Half from the East
publisher: HarperCollins