The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

258 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction biography history memoir emotional slow-paced
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Former ABC journalist Gayle Tzemach Lemmon tells the riveting true story of Kamila Sidiqi and other women of Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban’s fearful rise to power. In what Greg Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea, calls “one of the mos...

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inspiring 75%
hopeful 55%
informative 55%
emotional 44%
reflective 27%
tense 24%
adventurous 13%
challenging 13%
sad 10%
dark 6%

Pace

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medium 38%
fast 19%

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