My Forbidden Face

I just got done reading My Forbidden Face by Latifa. The author won't give her last name in order to stay safe. Its a memoir about a girl growing up under the Taliban. Its really good. It was a little hard to get into at first, but then I really started to like it. Its not as good as Stolen Lives - which I think we've all read, but it was still interesting. The beginning of the book starts while the girl still has freedom and then it changes once the Taliban gains power. She talks about what its like to go from living a normal life - wearing regular clothes, going to school etc to living a life where females can't even leave their house without a male escort. One part of the book talks about a Taliban law that state if a woman is seen talking to a man that is not her husband, she'll either be killed or they will be instantly married. Its so unthinkable. Reading books like that make me so astonished that there are so many places like that in this world that are still around.