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When she was seven years old, Farah Ahmedi stepped on a land mine in her native Afghanistan, losing one leg and suffering severe damage to the other. After two years in a German hospital, Farah returned to war-torn Afghanistan, but after losing most of her family, she and her mother fled to Pakistan. Four years later, they wound up in the U.S., thanks to a refugee relief group. And now, at age 17, Farah Ahmedi is a bestselling author. Hers is the book that viewers of ABC's "Good Morning America" voted for, in what's been called the most ambitious and all-inclusive search ever conducted to discover and publish an extraordinary life story. |
There is this Victorian-era tableau of pious Pilgrims at the Thanksgiving dinner table, clasping hands with their Indian brethren, and it wasn’t that at all. These were real people who had their own ambitions, their own fears. 
