My Dear Kabul review – inspirational resilience in an Afghan women’s writing group

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My Dear Kabul review – inspirational resilience in an Afghan women’s writing group

The collective diary of 21 women, compiled using WhatsApp messages, is an intimate, courageous chronicle of life as it unfolds under Taliban ruleIn the immediate aftermath of Kabul’s shocking and rapid fall to the Taliban in August 2021, women across the Afghan capital began a painful process of textual self-erasure in anticipation of the house-to-house searches that would inevitably follow. Precious books that had helped them become themselves …