The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul by Deborah Rodriguez, Bantam Australia, $32.95
Sunny is a Southern gal who’s made herself a home, and a buzzing small business, in the middle of a war zone. Her coffee shop in Kabul, Afghanistan, is a place where men check their weapons at the door, and women support each other in one of the most misogynistic places on earth.
Sunny’s 60-year old landlady Halajan is hiding a life-long love affair. Young Yazmina is taken in, after being stolen from her village, and is desperately disguising a burgeoning pregnancy. Wealthy American Candace has escaped her loveless marriage and run away with her Afghan lover. And journalist Isabel is asking all the right questions of all the wrong people.
Author, Deborah Rodriguez lived and worked in Kabul, and wrote the bestselling memoir The Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind The Veil. This is her first work of fiction, and it hums along with humour and understanding.
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