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Book Review of The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe

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This book is a nonfiction account of one family's struggle for survival in Afghanistan. More importantly, it is Muslim woman's story of hope and triumph in overwhelming circumstances. To hear a woman's perspective about the country and regime is unusual. It is a great addition to what has been written about that part of the world. An added bonus is that this book reads so much like a story that I had to keep reminding myself that these events are nonfiction. I read it in one sitting, something I usually cannot say about nonfiction.