The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe Free Audiobook Download by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe is about a family that immigrated from Afghanistan to America in 1979. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon's book is filled with heart-wrenching details about the things this family survived and how their life has been affected over time.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon's The Dressmaker of Khair Khana is a book about the lives and stories of five sisters living in Afghanistan, who are smuggled out of their country by their mother and taken to America. This is a story of heartache, hope, and perseverance in the face of life-threatening danger. The women must endure poverty, fear, and violence (even having been kidnapped once) in order to stay together as a family. As they wait for their parents to join them in America, they have no money or food. The eldest sister runs away from her abusive husband; the youngest sister gets married but ends up divorced after getting pregnant twice; another sister has several children that she cares for with little help from her mother.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon's book is a memoir about what happened when the Taliban attacked Khair Khana, Afghanistan on March 27th, 1998. The five sisters in the family make clothes for people in Afghanistan by sewing and selling them for profit. One day, the Taliban came and took control of their town. They have to leave even though they have nowhere to go. They traveled to Iran and then went on a series of dangerous journeys that involved staying in caves and going through border crossings without passports or any other document. It was only when they reached America that they could finally feel safe. Their journey is an example of the life change that many Afghans experienced during this era.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon's book, The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, is an incredible story about survival and family. Gayle's father was a dressmaker in Afghanistan who made exquisite clothes for Afghan royalty. Gayle's mother, the eldest sister of the five sisters she and her family are descended from, served as her father's assistant. Even with all the money they had in their possession, life wasn't easy for this family. In 1976 when Gayle was just nine years old, the Soviets invaded Afghanistan and everything changed for them. Gayle's mother died shielding her children from Soviet soldiers who were looting their home. This is a very difficult story to listen to because it's so heartbreaking but it's also inspiring because they persevered and lived to tell the tale.

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana is a nonfiction book about the Lemmon family. In 1948, when the British left east Africa, they left behind their African dresses and clothes. Later in 1963, the Lemmons moved from east Africa to America to start a new life with nothing but what they could carry or what people gave them. Gayle Lemmon's mother became an expert at sewing, and made custom-made clothes for all six sisters.

Five sisters, one family in Khair Khana, Pakistan with a history of extreme poverty and violence. Their mother, Tariqah, is the dressmaker of the title. All of her children may die in childbirth. She's determined to provide a better life for them. She opens a sewing business that employs girls from their neighborhood who would otherwise be living on the streets. When her girls are taken away by their father and forced into domestic servitude leaving Tariqah with nothing she does not stop trying.