Dancing in the Mosque - An Afghan Mother's Letter to Her Son

4th Estate (Harper Collins Publishers), 2020. Good secondhand condition.

An exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother?s unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. No ordinary Afghan woman, Homeira refused to cower under the strictures of a misogynistic social order. Defying the law, she risked her freedom to teach children reading and writing and fought for women?s rights in her theocratic and patriarchal society. Devastating in its power, Dancing in the Mosque is a mother?s searing letter to a son she was forced to leave behind. In telling her story - and that of Afghan women - Homeira challenges you to reconsider the meaning of motherhood, sacrifice, and survival. Her story asks you to consider the lengths you would go to protect yourself, your family, and your dignity...