The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul: The heart-warming and uplifting international bestseller

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The protagonist from the previous book, Sunny, is getting off a boat to reach a vineyard at a remote Island, which Jack has left to her in his will. Despite her growing friendship with Layla, she refuses to agree with Layla’s beliefs, particularly in regards to the hijab.

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It was so interesting to get to know the characters and their lives - the author really takes you to their world and it gives you a great insight of the lives in the different cultures.Following the lives of people within America adjusting to not being in Kabul anymore was not as interesting as I thought it would be. To see a woman so in love and with the man of her dreams and encouraging the next generation is such a brilliant thing.

This is so effective and relatable as a plot, we all know that we will come to this, or have already. I was sad to read that jack passed away and sunny was carrying around his ashes not knowing what to do with them. This is the story of six women - three of them live in Kabul, Afghanistan and the other three live in the Pacific Northwest of America.This was a book about finding a place where you belong, about clashes of culture and beliefs, and importantly, about the lives of Afghan women in contemporary Afghan society. She's an enigmatic and unconventional woman living in a patriarchal world whose pillars are conventional, parochial and conformist.

Like not enough focus was put into planning her full role in the book aside from her role with Kat and friendship with Sky. But before they got far with her, long before they could reach Kabul, where she would have been sold to the highest bidder to be his third or fourth wife, or forced into a life of slavery or prostitution, this strange western man dressed in a shalwaar kameez, with eyes that sparkled like blue ice and a voice that spoke with calm authority, appeared like a hero in a Bollywood movie and whisked her away and into the arms of her beloved sister. There's a point in the book where Layla says something to the effect of 'It's not true that men are abusive. The woman range from young to elderly and each have their own views of the Afgan religion, values and culture. Here we are, a couple of years later, with Sunny, Yaz and Halajan again, and even a few quick visits from Candace.So much of the country is still tied up in restrictive traditions, that deny women any existence beyond slavery. At first, I found it hard to read the book since the first few pages were boring, but then things started to get interesting. On the other hand, Yazmina and the others reveal to the reader how difficult and dangerous life is for the Afghanistan natives, especially for the women who have very little rights.