The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul

Rodriguez, Deborah. The little Coffee shop of Kabul, North Sydney. : Random House, 2011

This is the story of how five very different women, Sunny, an American and a proprietor of the coffee shop; Yasmina, a young pregnant Afghan woman stolen from a remote village and now abandon on Kabul’s streets; Candace, a wealthy American, who has left her husband for her Afghan lover; Isabel, an English journalist with a secretive past and Halajan, a sixty year-old Afghan women and den mother, come together in a coffee shop in Kabul, Afghanistan.  The author weaves a tale of life, death, romance and marriage, set in one of the most dangerous places on earth. The author, Deborah Rodriguez spent time working as a  hairdresser in a beauty salon in Kabul and has drawn from her own experiences to paint a vivid picture of Afghan life and culture.