‘We’re a lot more accustomed to-and comfy with-seeing ladies portrayed as victims of battle who are worthy of our sympathy instead of as resilient survivors who demand our respect…’

Former ABC journalist Gayle Tzemach Lemmon tells the riveting true story of Kamila Sidiqi and various other women of Afghanistan in the wake from the Taliban’s fearful rise to power. In what Greg Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea, telephone calls “probably one of the most uplifting books I’ve ever go through,” Lemmon recounts with novelistic vividness the real story of the fearless young girl who not merely reinvented herself as an entrepreneur to save her family but, when confronted with ferocious opposition, brought desire to the lives of a large number of women in war-torn Kabul.