by Asne SeierstadThis is a true and gripping story of an Afghani family told from the perspective of a woman who was granted the right to live with and observe them.
Frankly, it's a maddening story. These women are so repressed it's hard to believe. Through arranged marriages and the need to wear burkas they hardly have any freedom at all. Of course, life after the Taliban should be freer but so many are trapped in the mindset of the civil war, kind of like Americans who lived through the Depression will never be fully free of the lifestyle it forced them into.
The life of the men is not necessarily a sweet one either. This story covers the lives of many members of a family in an intense and lyrical way.
General consensus: I will never forget this story.
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