Dear Zari: Hidden Stories from Women of Afghanistan by Zarghuna Kargar
17 May, by in Adult Readers, Afghan, British, Memoir, Nonfiction
"'I hope other people – particularly women – listen to these stories and become kinder to their own sex,'" a woman laments, her life made unbearable by her female in-laws who condemn her because she literally flushed away the evidence of her virginal blood. "'I don't understand...