The Other Side of the Sky: A Memoir
| The Other Side of the Sky: A Memoir | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Farah Ahmedi |
| Original title | The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky |
| Country | United States of America |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Simon Spotlight Entertainment |
| Publication date | 2005 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 249 |
| ISBN | 978-1-4169-1837-0 |
| OCLC Number | 59552207 |
| Dewey Decimal | 305.23086/914 B 22 |
| LC Classification | HV640.4.U54 A3 2008 |
The Other Side of the Sky: A Memoir (originally published as The Story of my Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky) is a Memoir by Farah Ahmedi with Tamim Ansary. The Memoir profiles the life of Farah Ahmedi from the time she was born until she was seventeen years old.
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Farah Ahmedi was born in Kabul, Afghanistan near the end of the Soviet war in Afghanistan. When she was in second grade, she stepped on a land mine while taking a shortcut through a field to school. Farah was transferred to Germany where her leg was amputated. After over eighteen months in Germany, she returned to her home in Kabul. Shortly after she returned home, her father and sisters were killed by a stray rocket while Farah and her mother were shopping for fabrics, and her two brothers left Afghanistan in order to avoid a draft. Fearing for their lives, Farah and her mother fled to Pakistan where they endured harsh conditions in refugee camps for a couple years before World Relief rescued them and provided them a home in Chicago, Illinois. In Chicago, Farah and her mother began to adjust to their new life in Chicago, with major help from Alyce Litz, one of Farah's new friends.
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