Avhi's Flight

<p><b>WINNER National Indie Book Awards for Best Women's Fiction. FINALIST International Book Awards for Best Multicultural Fiction.</b></br><b>WINNER Beverly Hills Book Awards for Best Multicultural Fiction. FINALIST American Fiction Awards for Best Women's Fiction</b>.</p><p>From a remote corner of Nepal's countryside fourteen-year-old Avhi Tharu says a prayer for Mr. Singh. She has been promised to him in marriage. Instead she clubs him in the head and flees with his ox and cart from the village. Days later she slips through a mountain pass and into the lives of fellow travelers en route to Pokhara and Kathmandu. On the run uncertain who to trust and how to reconcile the past Avhi's encounter with girls and young women at the Thank Kot Center stirs her to discover a purpose beyond herself.</p><p>Avhi's Flight is a beautiful and bittersweet adventure. Its story weaves together the complex threads of one girl's search for wholeness the reckoning of lives left behind and a culture's disregard for its women. Like the nonfiction bestseller Half The Sky this important piece of fiction aligns with a central moral challenge of our time.</p><p>If you're interested in women standing up for women then this is a must-read.<br /> ---Bonnie Roberts <br /> Contributing Writer The Huffington Post; Fellow in Verse Dublin; <br /> Nat'l Endowment for the Humanities Scholar Paris; Fulbright Scholar Turkey</p><p>This book highlights the sad realities that accompany women and their children in Nepal on a daily basis. It is an eye-opening story about how profound gender-based injustices are common practices in Nepal. The purpose of the Women's Foundation of Nepal is to tackle these issues by raising awareness of them and empowering women with their rights.<br /> ---Renu Sharma <br /> President The Women's Foundation of Nepal</p>