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 \u2014 thrown together by circumstance, bonded by secrets, and united in an extraordinary friendship.
\nAfter hard luck and some bad choices, Sunny has finally found a place to call home \u2014 it just happens to be in the middle of a war zone.
\nThe thirty-eight-year-old American\u2019s 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\u2019s 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.
\nWorking 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 \u2014 who, unbeknownst to her, is facing his own religious doubts. Into the caf\u00e9 come Isabel, a British journalist on the trail of a risky story; Jack, who left his family back home in Michigan to earn \u201cdanger pay\u201d as a consultant; and Candace, a wealthy and well-connected American whose desire to help threatens to cloud her judgment.
\nWhen 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\u00e9 and gives her a home \u2014 but Yazmina hides a secret that could put all their lives in jeopardy.
\nAs this group of men and women discover that there\u2019s more to one another than meets the eye, they\u2019ll form an unlikely friendship that will change not only their own lives but the lives of an entire country.
\nBrimming with Deborah Rodriguez\u2019s remarkable gift for depicting the nuances of life in Kabul, and filled with vibrant characters that readers will truly care about, A Cup of Friendship is the best kind of fiction\u2014full of heart yet smart and thought-provoking.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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