{"product_id":"come-back-to-afghanistan-a-california-teenagers-story","title":"Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager's Story","description":"Used Hardcover in Very Good condition. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe intimate and riveting chronicle of an extraordinarily courageous Afghan-American teenager coming of age in post-9\/11 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAfghanistan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBuilding on two acclaimed radio documentaries aired on \u003ci\u003eThis American Life\u003c\/i\u003e, Hyder Akbar tells how his ordinary suburban California life was turned upside-down after 9\/11. Hyder's father, a scion of an Afghan political family, sold his business—a hip-hop clothing store in Oakland—and left for Afghanistan, where he became President Hamid Karzai's chief spokesman and later, the governor of Kunar, a rural province. Obsessed since youth with a country he had never even visited, seventeen-year-old Hyder convinced his father to let him join him on three successive summers. Working alongside his father at the presidential palace and in Kunar has given Hyder a rare front-row seat at the creation of democratic government in Afghanistan. In \u003ci\u003eCome Back to Afghanistan\u003c\/i\u003e, Hyder interweaves his personal journey—a teenager struggling with his identity in his parents' homeland—with a dramatic behind-the-scenes account of political and civilian life in post-Taliban Afghanistan. Uncommonly wise and insightful, Hyder travels from palaces to prisons and from Kabul to the borderlands, revealing Afghanistan as readers have never seen or understood it before.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Akbar, Said Hyder,Burton, Susan","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":53876811890971,"sku":"mon0000576034","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/4004\/3291\/files\/10243793482751.jpg?v=1788541755","url":"https:\/\/bookalley.com\/products\/come-back-to-afghanistan-a-california-teenagers-story","provider":"Book Alley","version":"1.0","type":"link"}