If it weren't for the abrupt ending, I would have given this book 5 stars. It was a captivating story about life for Afghan women, but the ending came out of nowhere. This book was eye-opening, to say the least. I was in the grocery store looking at magazines in line and seeing the stories about Paris Hilton buying her $700 shoes and these stars who pay ridiculous amounts of money on superficial things when people are actually living this way.