Title: Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
Author: Deborah Rodriguez
My Aunt Kate recommended this book to me a few months ago, and it narrowly missed being chosen by my book club for this year's roster. If you're looking for a book club book, here are a few reasons why, after finally finishing it myself, I think it's a perfect choice:
* It's relatively short (300 pages)
* It reads quickly
* It's written by a "real" person, as opposed to an author, so the writing isn't too dense
* It's a darn great story (a stylist who goes to Kabul with a relief organization and ends up opening a beauty school to train Afghan women to become stylists themselves, earn money and liberate themselves from male domination). In the process she finds love and meets some very interesting people
* It's clean (for those squeaky-clean, easily offended book group types)
* There are a lot of books that could be paired with it (like The Thousand Splendid Suns or Three Cups of Tea) to create sort of a thematic couple of months in a book group
* Afghan food sounds good
* Everyone could come dressed up like an Afghan bride-- 12" hairdo and all!
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