Kat, Sunny’s friend from America, is wrapping up her year-long stay in the land of her birth, but is facing some unfinished business. Then the US troops begin to withdraw – and the women watch in horror as the Taliban advance on the capital at ferocious speed… Oh my heart ❤️ What an absolute bundle of perfection for the last in the Little Coffee Shop of Kabul series. After a long absence Sunny arrives in the country that is fearful of its future, the trepidation and memories of life under the Taliban very real. Sunny, the proud proprietor, who needs an ingenious plan - and fast - to keep her café and customers safe...

Having spent some time in Azerbaijan, I am aware of some of the elements of being a Muslim and the role of women in Muslim culture. I gained more information about Muslims in this novel. Yazmina has been sold to a new husband whose surly advances in the car terrify her.Her secret --- that she is pregnant --- is discovered when he tries to molest her. Instead, the man hits her, throwing her from the slowly moving vehicle as they arrive in Kabul.Bleeding and dirty, she makes her way to the Women's Ministry.

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But the venture comes at a cost. Her loyal Afghan employees stand willing to help her increase business and profits to make the necessary improvements. Ahmet, Sunny's coffee house gatekeeper, is young and follows the Islamic practices that local clerics proclaim.But he's conflicted when the shy, green-eyed mountain girl arouses in him strange new feelings.His widowed mother, Halajan, hides a deep secret of her own, in conflict for him with the old religious ways. MY COMMENTS: I struggled somewhat with The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul when I read it some months ago. My review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... but I had hoped for the answers to some of my questions in the follow up book. Sadly, it was not to be. The author tends to gloss over things, important things, like Layla's abduction. Rodriguez's strength as a writer is her ability to conjure up vivid, endearing-but-flawed characters, whose lives are not without their upsets and challenges. She avoids being too saccharine and predictable, and drops several heartbreaking twists along the way. Sequel to the Kabul Coffee Shop series, Return to the Little Coffee Shop Of Kabul by Deborah Rodriguez gives you glimpse into the life of Sunny, Halajan, and the new generation. A generation living away from Kabul, trying to adjust on the another side of the world, a world without bullets and bloodshed. And not just the young ones, the grown ups now need to find a new path towards their life as well.

It tells the story of five women – two Americans, one British and two Afghans – and the friendship they forge in a little coffee shop in the centre of Kabul. Personally, I think that anyone from Asia or the Middle East will be able to see through the propaganda this book is. In short, the author is an American woman looking to cash in on her foreign holiday experience. Set against the terrifying fall of Kabul in 2021, Deborah Rodriguez concludes her bestselling Little Coffee Shop trilogy with a heart-stopping story of resilience, courage and, most importantly, hope.But it's not all the same. While ATSS is set in the first time the Taliban took over, this book is set in recent times. The honest, entertaining and life-affirming sequel to The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul, featuring the same loveable cast of characters, from internationally bestselling author Deborah Rodriguez. It all changes on a dime when the Talib actually storms Kabul and starts the sequence of events that are happening to get the whole family and Sunny out. Yes, and what about a woman whose husband has four wives? He is allowed four, and she is allowed just one husband? In that marriage, is she worth just one quarter of a man?"