A Sister to Honour - Ferriss, Lucy
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Afia Satar is studious, modest, and devout. The young daughter of a landholding family in northern Pakistan, Afia has enrolled in an American college with the dream of returning to her country as a doctor. But when a photo surfaces online of Afia holding hands with an American boy, she is suddenly no longer safe-even from the family that cherishes her. An ambitious athlete, Shahid Satar has been entrusted by his family to watch over Afia in this strange New England landscape. Having convinced their parents to allow his sister to come to the U.S., Shahid wants only to focus, right now, on the…mehr

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Afia Satar is studious, modest, and devout. The young daughter of a landholding family in northern Pakistan, Afia has enrolled in an American college with the dream of returning to her country as a doctor. But when a photo surfaces online of Afia holding hands with an American boy, she is suddenly no longer safe-even from the family that cherishes her. An ambitious athlete, Shahid Satar has been entrusted by his family to watch over Afia in this strange New England landscape. Having convinced their parents to allow his sister to come to the U.S., Shahid wants only to focus, right now, on the win over Harvard that could clinch a job for him in the United States. He never imagined he' d be ordered, instead, to cleanse family honor with his sister's blood.
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Born in St. Louis, Lucy Ferriss received her Ph.D. from Tufts University. Over the years she has authored ten books, including her memoir Unveiling the Prophet: The Misadventures of a Reluctant Debutante (named Best Book of the Year by the Riverfront Times), Nerves of the Heart (finalist in the Peter Taylor Prize competition), Leaving the Neighborhood and Other Stories (winner of the Mid-List First Series Award in 2000), and The Lost Daughter, a Book-of-the-Month pick. Lucy lives with her husband, Don Moon, in the Berkshires and in Connecticut, where she is Writer-in-Residence at Trinity College.