Taryn C. (TarynC) - , reviewed not impressed on 4/11/2009 + 213 more book reviews

I was not impressed with this book. The author was an adventurous woman who seemed to do a great service to the woman of Kabul by opening her beauty school and befriending them. However, she was quite a bizarre character herself, leaving her kids, becoming the second wife of a Muslim man she couldnt even communicate with when they first married. I couldnt relate to her despair about her marriage problems, how could she be upset when his first wife had a baby?? was she out of touch with reality? How could she NOT see what she was getting herself into? The story kept my interest till she got married and then in my opinion she really lost credibility and I started to wonder if her stories were actually all true or if she was just a good storyteller. Dont waste your time - I enjoyed ,Reading Lolita in Tehran,and ,A thousand splendid suns, if you want to know more about women in this region.

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