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The Storyteller's Daughter: One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland

Saira Shah

Start date: May 26, 2009

Discussion leader: Michelle

Why we're reading this: I am currently reading this book, and with Afghanistan being so much in the news lately, I though it woul…more
[close] I am currently reading this book, and with Afghanistan being so much in the news lately, I though it would be an appropriate first book to discuss.

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May 30, 2009 Michelle rated it it was amazing

This book by Saira Shah was very interesting. I cannot imagine putting on a shalwar kameez, pretending to be a young man, and trekking around Afgahnistan with the Mujahideen during Afghanistan's war with the Soviet Union. What an amazing and unforgettable experience that must have been. For me, I felt Shah's book shed some light upon how difficult it is to live in two different worlds. On the one hand she grew up in the west, and on the other hand she was raised with a fierce love of her family' ...more

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