However Tall the Mountain : A Dream, Eight Girls, and a Journey Home (Hardcover)

from whitreidtan

A timely book written by the woman who created the Afghan Youth Sports Exchange, an organization that nurtures young Afghani girls through sport, specifically soccer, this tells of the creation of the organization but it focuses more on the original eight girls on the team. It follows their lives...

from whitreidtan

A timely book written by the woman who created the Afghan Youth Sports Exchange, an organization that nurtures young Afghani girls through sport, specifically soccer, this tells of the creation of the organization but it focuses more on the original eight girls on the team. It follows their lives...

from MlleEhreen

This sweet memoir of a girl's soccer team in Afghanistan manages to touch on many of the tougher issues facing citizens, and women in particular, in Afghanistan. The tone is light as the narrator describes a small set of teenage girls learning to pass, dribble, and cooperate on the playing field;...

from Soniamarie

This is not really about soccer. Sports fanatics will be a bit disappointed. I think, however, that most will be touched by the story of 8 girls learning to live again after the Taliban rule. In 2004, Awista, the authoress, sponsored these young Afghan women to come and learn soccer in the States...

from ReadThisNotThat

Awista Ayub's However Tall the Mountain is an inspiring tale of her own experiences as an Afghan-American and the opportunity and challenges she provides to eight Afghani girls. Ayub's account of the events is neither too heart-warming or too melancholy. Events are recounted in a realistic and pr...