Daughter of the East: An Autobiography Japan and cultural challenges facing the

and cultural challenges facing the country

As she steps onto her veranda

no value but as a bearer of sons

to that place between the sky and water where all is as it once was

hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town

Daughter of the East: An Autobiography Japan and cultural challenges facing theBeautiful, charismatic, and the first and only woman to lead a post colonial Muslim state, Benazir Bhutto achieved international renown in her native Pakistan until charges of corruption forced her into exile in the late 1990s. From her upbringing in one of Pakistan's richest families to her subsequent politicization and her arrest following her father's execution, Bhutto's autobiography chronicles a life of strength, dedication, and courage in the