Zarifa Ghafari

A moving and inspiring memoir by Afghanistan's youngest female mayor and campaigner for human rights, as seen in Netflix's In Her Hands documentary. Zarifa will break your heart' – Christina Lamb, author of Our Bodies, Their Battlefields and I Am Malala 'Incredible' – Stylist 'In this earnest and fiery memoir, an activist and politician from Afghanistan recounts how her country's...

I am one of the lucky ones. I got out of Afghanistan alive when the Taliban retook the country. Millions of others did not—they are now living under one of the world's most repressive regimes, with any progress that was made for women over the past twenty years being brutally reversed. Every day, I yearn for my motherland. Now it...