Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan to transform her own life and ended up revolutionizing the lives of many of her Afghan sisters. This book is a look at the lives of women in Afghanistan through the lens of The Kabul Beauty School.
When Deborah helped establish the Kabul Beauty School she not only worked to empower her students, living in this very strict culture, but the beauty school proved a small haven, and through this she made some of the closest friends of her life.
Woven through the book are the stories of her students: there is the newlywed who must fake her own virginity, the 12 year-old bride who has been sold into marriage to pay her family's debts, the brilliant former medic who has not left her house for thirty years. All of these women have a story to tell, and all of them bring their stories to the Kabul Beauty School, where, along with Rodriguez herself, they learn the art of perms, of friendship, and of freedom.
A fabulous book, and a second I've read by Deborah, the other being 'Little Coffee Shop of Kabul'. A great in-site into the lives of these beautiful and courageous women.
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