Sadia Shepard <br/><br/>
The Girl From Foreign 

 -  Penguin Press HC, The 
 - 384 pages 
<br/><br/> A search for shipwrecked ancestors, forgotten histories, and a sense of home Fascinating and intimate , The Girl from Foreign is one woman's search for ancient family secrets that leads to an adventure in far-off lands. Sadia Shepard, the daughter of a white Protestant from Colorado and a Muslim from Pakistan, was shocked to discover that her grandmother was a descendant of the Bene Israel, a tiny Jewish community shipwrecked in India two thousand years ago. After traveling to India to put the pieces of her family's past together, her quest for identity unlocks a myriad of profound religious and cultural revelations that Shepard gracefully weaves into this touching, eye-opening memoir. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781594201516 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>181601815 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008003912 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Religion-Spirituality<br/>History - U.S.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E184.36.E84 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>973.0492405