Beyond the Headlines: Five Essential Books For Understanding Afghanistan

Beyond the Headlines: Five Essential Books For Understanding Afghanistan

My novel Good People is the story of an Afghan family who come to the United States as refugees in pursuit of the American Dream, and of the destruction of that dream after a horrific tragedy strikes the family. Good People is about the Afghan experience of displacement and exile, and about the fault lines in an immigrant community between an older generation that wishes to assimilate in America—but only on its own terms—and a younger generation…