The Story of My Life is our new great American memoir. Farah is living proof that not only can the human heart endure, it can also thrive. She is actively enjoying the realization of her childhood dreams. Thanks to a number of good people who crossed her path at critical moments, Farah is thriving. It deftly interweaves a childhood in Afghanistan, where the classrooms are naked chambers with only chalkboards on the walls, with an American adolescence, where teenagers struggle to decide whether to try out for school plays and where to go to college. length book manuscript of her life story, entitled The Story of My Life: An.

The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky recounts an epic journey. 17 year old Farah Ahmedi overcame a landmine injury and war in her native. When Farah steps on a land mine on her way to school, her world becomes much smaller than the dreams and hopes of her heart. Bombs are falling all over her country, and her native Kabul is swelling with thousands of people looking for homes and jobs. This audiobook is the result of the most ambitious search ever conducted to publish an extraordinary life story.įarah Ahmedi is born into the world just as the war between the mujahadeen and the Soviets reaches its peak in Afghanistan.

After a panel of best-selling authors and editors chose three finalists, America was given the opportunity to vote on which aspiring author's story would be published. When ABC News' Good Morning America asked its viewers to write essays describing true-life experiences, the network never imagined receiving more than 20,000 pages of inspiring stories.

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