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A review by norimee
Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mother's Letter to Her Son by Homeira Qaderi
4.0
While reading these letters from a mother to her son, I can't help but wonder if there will ever be a time the son will care about what his mother has to say?
After all, he grows up in Afghanistans men's world, which is today worse than ever and where oppressing women is not only the norm but expected. Raised by his Taliban-approving father, separated from his mother as a young toddler because she couldn't accept her husbands polygamy.
Will he even have a chance to become something other than the men, the pillars of the patriarchal, opressive system his mother is fighting against?
After all, he grows up in Afghanistans men's world, which is today worse than ever and where oppressing women is not only the norm but expected. Raised by his Taliban-approving father, separated from his mother as a young toddler because she couldn't accept her husbands polygamy.
Will he even have a chance to become something other than the men, the pillars of the patriarchal, opressive system his mother is fighting against?