The Underground Girls Of Kabul (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
As the oldest sister, Azita was immediately put to work when she arrived at her grandparents’ house in Badghis in 1995. For laundry to be done, a wood fire first had to be kindled and tended to. Fresh water then had to be hauled from a long walk away with two heavy buckets. Homemade lye was extracted by pouring ashes in salt water. The lye took the dirt out of fabric—and the skin from hands. The student from an elite school in Kabul found herself in what is still today one of the country’s most rural and undeveloped provinces. Close to Iran and bordering on Turkmenistan, Badghis is named after the strong winds that come across the mountains and blow across its deserts and scattered pistachio forests. Most residents are farmers. Few can read or write. Without functioning schools to go to, there was not much to do, and Azita’s parents insisted that when the war was over, they would return to the capital and resume a normal life. Azita would become a doctor and she would travel abroad.
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