From the author of the memoir Kabul Beauty School comes a fiction debut as compelling as real life the story of a remarkable coffee shop in the heart of Afghanistan, and the men and women who meet there thrown together by circumstance, bonded by secrets, and united in an extraordinary friendship After hard luck and some bad choices, Sunny has finally found a place to cFrom the author of the memoir Kabul Beauty School comes a fiction debut as compelling as real life the story of a remarkable coffee shop in the heart of Afghanistan, and the men and women who meet there thrown together by circumstance, bonded by secrets, and united in an extraordinary friendship After hard luck and some bad choices, Sunny has finally found a place to call home it just happens to be in the middle of a war zone.The thirty eight year old American s pride and joy is the Kabul Coffee House, where she brings hospitality to the expatriates, misfits, missionaries, and mercenaries who stroll through its doors She s especially grateful that the busy days allow her to forget Tommy, the love of her life, who left her in pursuit of money and adventure.Working alongside Sunny is the maternal Halajan, who vividly recalls the days before the Taliban and now must hide a modern romance from her ultratraditional son who, unbeknownst to her, is facing his own religious doubts Into the caf come Isabel, a British journalist on the trail of a risky story Jack, who left his family back home in Michigan to earn danger pay as a consultant and Candace, a wealthy and well connected American whose desire to help threatens to cloud her judgment When Yazmina, a young Afghan from a remote village, is kidnapped and left on a city street pregnant and alone, Sunny welcomes her into the caf and gives her a home but Yazmina h
The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul By Deborah Rodriguez From the author of the memoir Kabul Beauty School comes a fiction debut as compelling as real life the story of a remarkable coffee shop in the heart of Afghanistan, and the men and women who meet there thrown together by circumstance, bonded by secrets, and united in an extraordinary friendship After hard luck and some bad choices, Sunny has finally found a place to cFrom the author of the memoir Kabul Beauty School comes a fiction debut as compelling as real life the story of a remarkable coffee shop in the heart of Afghanistan, and the men and women who meet there thrown together by circumstance, bonded by secrets, and united in an extraordinary friendship After hard luck and some bad choices, Sunny has finally found a place to call home it just happens to be in the middle of a war zone.The thirty eight year old American s pride and joy is the Kabul Coffee House, where she brings hospitality to the expatriates, misfits, missionaries, and mercenaries who stroll through its doors She s especially grateful that the busy days allow her to forget Tommy, the love of her life, who left her in pursuit of money and adventure.Working alongside Sunny is the maternal Halajan, who vividly recalls the days before the Taliban and now must hide a modern romance from her ultratraditional son who, unbeknownst to her, is facing his own religious doubts Into the caf come Isabel, a British journalist on the trail of a risky story Jack, who left his family back home in Michigan to earn danger pay as a consultant and Candace, a wealthy and well connected American whose desire to help threatens to cloud her judgment When Yazmina, a young Afghan from a remote village, is kidnapped and left on a city street pregnant and alone, Sunny welcomes her into the caf and gives her a home but Yazmina h
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