Passages Through Pakistan

<p>“I had grown up in Pakistan was nurtured on her soil took my first steps and said my first words there. Pakistan was a land that knew me before I had a recollection of ‘being;’ before I knew I was human.”</p><p>Memories of joy and pain close friendships and loneliness interweave in this compelling portrait of an extraordinary childhood.  In Passages Through Pakistan Marilyn Gardner traces a journey of growing faith and emerging identity in a small missionary community. From the close quarters of boarding school to the strangeness of furloughs in her parents’ native Massachusetts this honest portrayal of a young girl’s struggles with faith friendship and belonging will resonate deeply with a wide range of readers.</p><p>Marilyn Gardner spent her childhood and adolescence in Pakistan and raised her five children in Pakistan and Egypt. She now lives in Cambridge Massachusetts where she works as a public health nurse with underserved immigrant communities. Marilyn is the author of Between Worlds: Essays on Culture and Belonging and blogs at Communicating Across Boundaries and A Life Overseas.</p>