The Kabul Beauty School: The Art Of Friendship And Freedom by Deborah Rodriguez

The Kabul Beauty School: The Art Of Friendship And Freedom by Deborah RodriguezSoon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war torn nation. Surrounded by men and women whose skillsas doctors, nurses, and therapistsseemed eminently more practical than her own, Rodriguez, a hairdresser and mother of two from Michigan, despaired of being of any real use. Yet she soon found she had a gift for befriending Afghans, and once her profession

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