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Lipstick in Afghanistan Audiobook
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Booklist calls this powerful debut by Roberta Gately an "utterly engrossing read." In the months after 9/11, Boston nurse Elsa Murphy volunteers to go to Afghanistan to work in a small clinic. Although her new surroundings take some adjusting to, Elsa soon finds friendship with a young Afghani woman and potential romance with a U.S. soldier. But Elsa's newfound happiness is threatened when Taliban forces move in.
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“In this utterly engrossing read, Gately vividly evokes the beauty and tragedy of Afghanistan, where she, like Elsa, worked as a nurse after 9/11.”
— Booklist
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“[Gately is] a supremely gifted writer and eloquent ambassador for the people who have been banished from civilized society.”
— Mark Fritz, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Lost on Earth: Nomads in the New World -
“[Gately gives] readers an Afghanistan that…has the tang of the real deal.”
— Publishers Weekly
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About Mozhan Marnò
Mozhan Marnò is an Iranian American film and television actress, most notably appearing in Charlie Wilson’s War and Bones. Her audiobook narrations have won several AudioFile Earphones Awards.