Lipstick in Afghanistan
By: Roberta Gately.
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781439191385; 9781439191446
Subjects: Nurses -- Fiction; Afghan War, 2001- -- Fiction; Americans -- Afghanistan -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: "Gripped by haunting magazine images of starving refugees, Elsa has dreamed of becoming a nurse since she was a teenager. Of leaving her humble working-class Boston neighborhood to help people whose lives are far more difficult than her own. No one in her family has ever escaped poverty, but Elsa has a secret weapon: a tube of lipstick she found in her older sister's bureau. Wearing it never fails to raise her spirits and cement her determination. With lipstick on, she can do anything, even travel alone to war-torn Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11."--from publisher description.