Book #42: Kabul Beauty School; An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriguez.
This book tells Deborah's own story of heading to Afghanistan to open a beauty school for women. Prior to this, Deborah has spent negligible time in Afghanistan and no time running a business/non-profit. She does not know Dari, the dominant language in Kabul, or anything else about Afghanistan, except that she wants to help women there.
It seems that Debbie has a tendency to act without thinking, and that that tendency extended to writing and publishing this book.
It was WAY easier to get through than Three Cups of Tea
, and, in theory, is about 100% more honest, but had some structural problems (for me, anyway) and left about a million loose ends, even with an added afterword for the paperback edition.Does the beauty school still exist? I don't know.*
Is she still married to the random Afghan dude she barely knew? I don't know.
Were people actually after her and the school or was it some sort of weird conspiracy? I don't know.
Was she in it to make a profit or just working her ass off to help women in Afghanistan? I don't know.
Did she finally bother to learn the damn language? I don't know, but judging from the few years the book spans, I'm gonna guess no.
*Okay, I do know--the school's closed. But I had to do some research to find out
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