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Original Title:	A Cup of Friendship
ISBN:	174275001X (ISBN13: 9781742750019)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul #1

The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul (The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul #1)

Deborah Rodriguez

Paperback | Pages: 317 pages

Rating: 3.62 | 18240 Users | 1929 Reviews

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From the author of the memoir Kabul Beauty School comes a fiction debut as compelling as real life: the story of a remarkable coffee shop in the heart of Afghanistan, and the men and women who meet there — thrown together by circumstance, bonded by secrets, and united in an extraordinary friendship.
After hard luck and some bad choices, Sunny has finally found a place to call home — it just happens to be in the middle of a war zone.
The thirty-eight-year-old American’s pride and joy is the Kabul Coffee House, where she brings hospitality to the expatriates, misfits, missionaries, and mercenaries who stroll through its doors. She’s especially grateful that the busy days allow her to forget Tommy, the love of her life, who left her in pursuit of money and adventure.
Working alongside Sunny is the maternal Halajan, who vividly recalls the days before the Taliban and now must hide a modern romance from her ultratraditional son — who, unbeknownst to her, is facing his own religious doubts. Into the café come Isabel, a British journalist on the trail of a risky story; Jack, who left his family back home in Michigan to earn “danger pay” as a consultant; and Candace, a wealthy and well-connected American whose desire to help threatens to cloud her judgment.
When Yazmina, a young Afghan from a remote village, is kidnapped and left on a city street pregnant and alone, Sunny welcomes her into the café and gives her a home — but Yazmina hides a secret that could put all their lives in jeopardy.
As this group of men and women discover that there’s more to one another than meets the eye, they’ll form an unlikely friendship that will change not only their own lives but the lives of an entire country.
Brimming with Deborah Rodriguez’s remarkable gift for depicting the nuances of life in Kabul, and filled with vibrant characters that readers will truly care about, A Cup of Friendship is the best kind of fiction—full of heart yet smart and thought-provoking.

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Title	:	The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul (The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul #1)
Author	:	Deborah Rodriguez
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 317 pages
Published	:	February 1st 2011 by Random House (first published January 1st 2011)
Categories	:	Fiction. Book Club. Romance

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This is the first review that I've written on here. Having just read 'The Kite Runner', I was eager to learn more about the gorgeous culture that I'd had a glimpse of in Khaled Hosseini's beautiful novel. I am a sucker for a bit of 'chick lit' as I find it so easy to read and escape to. I just didn't get this book and what it was trying to do. Its message seemed to be one of importance but the bias was too much for me, it didn't feel authentic, not to mention I found the characters thoroughly

This has been a wonderful read. I found myself completey immersed in another world and felt as though I came to know the characters of this story intimately. Sunny is an American from Missouri trying to make a new life in Afghanistan. She's runs a coffee house that welcomes Afghans, Americans, UN workers, and employs a fascinating mixture of people. She loves Afghanistan, but the rise in violence and possible re emergence of the Taliban is making the country unsafe for her and her coffee shop.

This book turned out to be a much lighter affair than I was expecting. It is more like a romantic chick lit story albeit set in the troubled city of Kabul. Sunny, a heartbroken American, runs the eponymous coffee shop which is visited by a range of characters from an American consultant, British journalist etc.. There are Afghan characters like Halajan who helps to run the cafe and a pregnant Yazmina, who makes the cafe her home.The most interesting characters are the Afghans but their character

One thing I liked about this novel: an ordinary American woman who has extraordinary gumption wrote it. The author's life as an American hairdresser was changed by 9/11. Deborah Rodriguez is an amazing person. She finagled her way onto a medical mission to Afghanistan although she was a hairdresser and not a doctor. Despite incredible risk to herself, she started the Kabul Beauty School for women. Because of her life in Kabul and her marriage to a Muslim Afghan, she is able to expose, to some

This book grabbed my interest when I read a review of it in my paper...They offer discounted prices on the book they review, I went the Kindle route instead and it was still cheaper.How can I give my review....I...Hmm..I wanted to love this book but couldn't....It has an okay background but the characters seem a bit "fluffy" and they don't have much behind them though they "pretend" too. If this was just a romantic romp then I could say 'Fine' and be happy with the flat characters but in this

I'll be clear up front: I did not finish this book. A few chapters in it became apparent that, instead of being an immersive experience about a different country, culture, and people, it was simply another presumptuous American cashing in on the current trend of cultural appropriation. Rodriguez writes like an American who arrogantly assumes that because she lived in Afghanistan for a while, she understands their culture better than they do. I'm sure other readers, equally obtuse, will enjoy the

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