{"product_id":"my-city-was-a-sparking-jewel-voices-of-newcomer-youth-from-afghanistan","title":"My City Was a Sparking Jewel: Voices of Newcomer Youth from Afghanistan","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"wpb_wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy City Was a Sparkling Jewel: Voices of Newcomer Youth from Afghanistan \u003c\/i\u003eis the latest installment of our youth voices series that includes the journeys of nineteen young men and eleven young women whose lives were all radically disrupted by the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTheir stories share the challenges faced, opportunities grasped, and dreams these youth had, and still have, for themselves, and for the families and friends they left behind.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhile the future of Afghanistan and its youth in the United States is still uncertain, these first-person stories illuminate the harrowing contours of the unjust displacement these young people experienced and bear witness to the early days of their resettlement in the United States.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eUsing a trauma-informed approach to storytelling, Green Card Voices and its partners from diasporic Afghanistan, carefully collected first-person accounts of the diverse journeys of nineteen young men and eleven young women on their path to resettling in Minnesota. These stories were gathered at the speed of trust using a mix of handwritten essays and oral storytelling in English, Dari\/Farsi, and Pashto. \u003ci\u003eMy City Was a Sparkling Jewel: Voices of Newcomer Youth from Afghanistan\u003c\/i\u003e shares the challenges faced, opportunities grasped, and dreams these youth had, and still have, for themselves, and for the families and friends they left behind. The storytellers, ages fifteen to twenty, come from various ethnic groups—Pashtun, Hazara, Pashai, Tajik—so their stories detail a wide range of experiences. While the future of Afghanistan and its youth in the United States is still uncertain, these first-person stories illuminate the harrowing contours of the unjust displacement these young people experienced and bear witness to the early days of their resettlement in the United States.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBook includes:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e30 illustrated portraits\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForeword by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nadiahashimibooks.com\/\"\u003eNadia Hashimi, Author of International Best-Seller “The Pearl that Broke its Shell”\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction by Arash Yousufi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Green Card Voices","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67239123910731,"sku":null,"price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0635\/5645\/2427\/files\/MyCityWasASparklingJewel_MOCKUP-1-scaled.jpg?v=1792001742","url":"https:\/\/xiabooks.org\/products\/my-city-was-a-sparking-jewel-voices-of-newcomer-youth-from-afghanistan","provider":"XIA Books \u0026 Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}