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West of Kabul, East of New York

From Tamimansary.com: Ansary’s literary memoir tells the story of a life that straddles the fault line between Islam and the West: his father, hailing from an ancestral line rich in Sufi mystics, was one of the first ten Afghans sent abroad by his government for a Western-style education; and his mother was the first American woman to marry an Afghan and live in Afghanistan as an Afghan. Ansary and his sister Rebecca were thus the first Afghan-Americans...

The author goes on to explore the theme of bifurcated cultural identity as his story moves to United States, to the sixties counterculture, to travels across North Africa and Turkey, and finally to the psychological journey that Afghan refugees and exiles have gone through in America since the Soviets invaded their country.

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