Deborah Rodrigues_67

'The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul' is a bit of a mongrel—part "perfect summer read" and part feminist commentary on life in Afghanistan in the early 2000s. Oddly enough, it works, and the social, cultural and logistical details captured my attention, which might otherwise have been snoozing through the "one little cafe, five extraordinary women" beach read conventions. Rodrigues' actually lived the world she describes so next step is straight to the source: her bestselling memoir, 'Kabul Beauty School'.