The book is a historical testimony from the time before the Taliban took power in Afghanistan
in 2021. In her qualitative research the author traces the interwoven narratives of girls' and
young Afghan women's experiences of suffering solidarity and hope focussing on the subjective
realities and agency of girls and young women in Afghanistan. She contextualises how women in
Afghanistan have always been exploited as pawns of national and international actors and the
extent to which military and humanitarian interventions have ignored the realities of life.
