Used book – The Sand Child, Tahar Ben Jelloun

In a square in Marrakech, a storyteller recounts the disturbing story of Ahmed, the eighth daughter of a couple who, in the absence of a male heir, raise her as a boy. The child grows up discovering her femininity, but chooses to live as a man. She even goes so far as to marry a neglected girl, a companion in her dizzying descent into hell. Inspired by a true story, L'enfant de sable is a poetic novel about the difficulty of being oneself.