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A Door in the Earth

af Amy Waldman

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"Parveen Shams, a college senior in search of a calling, feels pulled between her charismatic and mercurial anthropology professor and the comfortable but predictable Afghan-American community in her Northern California hometown. When she discovers a bestselling book called Mother Afghanistan, a memoir by humanitarian Gideon Crane that has become a bible for American engagement in the country, she is inspired. Galvanized by Crane's experience, Parveen travels to a remote village in the land of her birth to join the work of his charitable foundation. When she arrives, however, Crane's maternity clinic, while grandly equipped, is mostly unstaffed. The villagers do not exhibit the gratitude she expected to receive. And Crane's memoir appears to be littered with mistakes, or outright fabrications. As the reasons for Parveen's pilgrimage crumble beneath her, the U.S. military, also drawn by Crane's book, turns up to pave the sole road to the village, bringing the war in their wake. When a fatal ambush occurs, Parveen must decide whether her loyalties lie with the villagers or the soldiers - and she must determine her own relationship to the truth."--Publisher description.… (mere)
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A Berkley graduate, follows a Dr. , who wrote a book how he was building a hospital in Afghanistan to help the people there. She goes there and offers her help only to find out--is she really helping, do we understand the culture, people, their needs and their ways? Or is she doing more harm?
When the US goes to help countries, are we being helpful or...? ( )
  evatkaplan | Apr 22, 2020 |
Does a great job of laying out the difficulties, misunderstandings and contradictions inherent in the US military presence in Afganistan, particularly as it relates to the plight of the women. ( )
  ghefferon | Apr 20, 2020 |
An Afghan/American woman is moved by the impact of a book to live in a remote village in Afghan. Interesting story to help in understanding the impact of that war, both on Americans as well as the people of Afghan. ( )
  Pmaurer | Mar 15, 2020 |
Description of life in a remote village in Afghanistan will stay with me, as will the problems and consequences of American military and aid intervention in that country. ( )
  SarahStenhouse | Nov 17, 2019 |
The best intentions may result in nothing or even backfire , when one tries to bring change in a context without connecting with culture and the consciousness of those involved. A road that the US forces want to build partly to unlock an isolated afghan village but also for propaganda, ends up bringing violence in a previously relatively peaceful valley. ( )
  rbonino | Nov 16, 2019 |
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"Parveen Shams, a college senior in search of a calling, feels pulled between her charismatic and mercurial anthropology professor and the comfortable but predictable Afghan-American community in her Northern California hometown. When she discovers a bestselling book called Mother Afghanistan, a memoir by humanitarian Gideon Crane that has become a bible for American engagement in the country, she is inspired. Galvanized by Crane's experience, Parveen travels to a remote village in the land of her birth to join the work of his charitable foundation. When she arrives, however, Crane's maternity clinic, while grandly equipped, is mostly unstaffed. The villagers do not exhibit the gratitude she expected to receive. And Crane's memoir appears to be littered with mistakes, or outright fabrications. As the reasons for Parveen's pilgrimage crumble beneath her, the U.S. military, also drawn by Crane's book, turns up to pave the sole road to the village, bringing the war in their wake. When a fatal ambush occurs, Parveen must decide whether her loyalties lie with the villagers or the soldiers - and she must determine her own relationship to the truth."--Publisher description.

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