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

from mdbrady

A factual account that reads like fiction, by an American writer about a woman in Kabul who created a business to ensure the survival of her family and those of other women when the Taliban controlled the city. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon left her position at ABC to earn an M.B.A. at Harvard and researc...

from Dmtcer

I honestly had no pre-concieved notions about this book, but it turns out that I could not put it down; I finished it in just one day. It horrified me, as an American woman who experiences so much freedom of will and choice in everything I do, to read about what women actually experienced when th...

from lahochstetler

The rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan made educated and independent women prisoners in their own households. Aside from grave human rights abuses, the Taliban also created an immediate practical problem for thousands of women who could no longer work to support their families. One Kabul woman, K...

from CasaBooks

Of course, since Mom was a Dressmaker, have to read anything with that title. And there is some affinity with how they worked together teaching more and more women to sew and the assembly line they used. However, the current day suppression of Mid-Eastern women and the difficulty of their lives -...

from mountie9

The Good Stuff * You can really feel the authors love and admiration for the subjects of her book * A hopeful and passionate real life story about resilience, perseverance, communities working together, faith and family * Excellent bibliography for further background information * Many stories of...