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This story is a humorous, powerful and empowering story about a woman who goes to Afgahnistan to help out. While there she gets involved with helping the local women as she starts a beauty school for them. You’ll laugh as you read about her struggles, cultural misunderstandings and universal women’s issues she discovers. It will make you laugh and cry and come away feeling inspired and in awe of women everywhere. This is one book I couldn’t put down. It is a fast and entertaining read that is empowering also! Let us know how you like it!

The following review was found on amazon.com

Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
by Deborah Rodriguez (Author), Kristin Ohlson (Author)
From School Library Journal
Adult/High School–In 2002, just months after the Taliban had been driven out of Afghanistan, Rodriguez, a hairdresser from Holland, MI, joined a small nongovernmental aid organization on a mission to the war-torn nation. That visit changed her life. In Kabul, she chronicles her efforts to help establish the country’s first modern beauty school and training salon; along with music and kite-flying, hairdressing had been banned under the previous regime. This memoir offers a glimpse into a world Westerners seldom see–life behind the veil. Rodriguez was entranced with the delightful personalities that emerged when her students removed their burqas behind closed doors, but her book is also a tale of empowerment–both for her and the women. In a city with no mail service, she went door-to-door to recruit students from clandestine beauty shops, and there were constant efforts to shut her down. She had to convince Afghan men to work side by side with her to unpack cartons of supplies donated from the U.S. The students, however, are the heroines of this memoir. Women denied education and seldom allowed to leave their homes found they were able to support themselves and their families. Rodriguez’s experiences will delight readers as she recounts such tales as two friends acting as parents and negotiating a dowry for her marriage to an Afghan man or her students puzzling over a donation of a carton of thongs. Most of all, they will share her admiration for Afghan women’s survival and triumph in chaotic times.–Pat Bangs, Fairfax County Public Library, VA

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