Come Back to Afghanistan
A California Teenager's Story
By Said Hyder Akbar; Susan Burton
(Bloomsbury USA, Paperback, 9781596910683, 352pp.)
Publication Date: October 31, 2006
Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover
Categories: Asia - Central, Asia - General, Travelers
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The beautifully and prominently reviewed memoir by an extraordinarily courageous Afghan-American teenager, (now a student at Yale), coming of age in post 9/11 Afghanistan.
Said Hyder Akbar is currently a junior at Yale University in New Haven, CT. He is also codirector and founder of his own nongovernmental organization, Wadan Afghanistan, which has rebuilt schools and constructed pipe systems in rural Kunar province. Susan Burton is a contributing editor of This American Life and a former editor at Harper's. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine.
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