A review by abetterjulie
The World is a Carpet: Four Seasons in an Afghan Village by Anna Badkhen

4.0

This is a powerful little book about rural life in Afghanistan. There were two points in the book where I had to stop reading and just process the profound and alien differences between our cultures. It is illuminating and humbling to imagine trying to drop our ideas and way of life into a land that has centuries of tribal history, addiction, and a lack of modern education.
I felt like the descriptive language was overdone at times and resulted in an inability to see the picture she was painting. I was unhappy with her brutal and unnecessary description of the crane deaths.