Book: The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Many things took place since my last visit to my own blog a year ago? --Switched jobs, finally completed a 7-year-long project, raised kids a year older, ran the house semi-decently, received visiting friends, reconnected with many on FB, saw my best WXC friend for the first time on their way to San Diego, considered a school purchase project, hiked, biked and read many books in between... This busy life of mine. And, for a while, forgot my blog login and password -- Haha.

This is what I just finished reading: The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe.



A recounting of what life for women was like under Taliban and how the sisters of one family made it work for not themselves but the whole community. When Taliban was driven out of Kabul in 2001, problems did not go away and life did not get any easier.

My current reading is the memoir of an ex UN convoy's two-year term in Afghanistan, depicting the international military and relief communities' conflicts, struggles and lack of coordination in their efforts to supposedly help the war-torn country.