Ebook: I Am a Bacha Posh: My Life as a Woman Living as a Man in Afghanistan

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; 1. From Kabul to New York; 2. "You Will Be A Boy, My Girl"; 3. In The Flesh of a Man; 4. Being Sixteen Years Old In The Jihad; 5. The Time of Heroes; 6. Prisoner Under The Taliban; 7. The First Vote; 8. Alone Before Allah; 9. Candidate to Serve Women; 10. The Hand of President Karzai; 11. With the American Troops; 12. Badgai, The Sacrifice of The Life of A Woman; Epilogue.;The author recounts how she spent her childhood in Afghanistan as a bacha posh, a girl dressed as a boy as part of a common practice that allowed her to act as a son, but then defied the custom of reverting to behaving as a woman in adolescence.