An American woman, a hairdresser by trade, goes to Afghanistan as part of an humanitarian mission and finds that her skills are in big demand. The thing I was struck by is that the women are willing to pursue an education at great cost to themselves – one woman is beaten daily by her husband for going to school, another young girl has to stop her schooling because her family sold her to be married. It’s truly amazing the lengths that these very proud women will go to for an education. I was less impressed with the author who chose to leave her own two children behind with family in the United States AND then chose to sign up for an arranged marriage with a man from Afghanistan! Needless to say, her brash and bold ways were not always accepted by her new husband!
This was a very enlightening book to me and made me very aware of how lucky we are in the United States to be able to pursue an education without fear of being persecuted.