On the Edge of Being (An Afghan Woman's Journey)

“I felt connected to the street girls, as if our silent smiles spoke a thousand words between us.”

Sometimes painful and at other times shocking, On the Edge of Being is still hopeful. The daughter of a progressive Afghan governor, author Sharifa Sharif observes from an early age that life for women — both within and beyond the walls of her home — is neither simple nor fair. The world that Afghan women inhabit in her memoir illuminates the split between body and voice — a split that has wrought a devastating impact on the women of Afghanistan.