The Moonlit Cage
Author: Linda Holeman
Dary�’s simple life in mid-nineteenth-century Afghanistan is torn apart when a hateful curse by a jealous tribeswoman leaves her an outcast in her small Muslim village. She looks to her arranged marriage to the son of a nomadic tribal chief with hope that it will deliver her from this oppression; instead, Dary� finds herself regularly beaten by her wrathful husband, and mo….Read More
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