The Broken Circle: A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan by Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller

This is a very heart-wrenching account of one family's multi-year escape from Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation and war. There are some lovely descriptive passages and references to the poetry this family share with so much pleasure. Unfortunately, it is narrated by an 8-10-year-old girl and appears at times to be too informed by adult perspectives to be natural and the very difficult journey through the mountains and weeks of enforced hiding in rural Afghan villages becomes somewhat repetitive. Nevertheless, there is a visceral experience for readers that provides an important understanding of the horrors that many refugees suffer escaping from the endless wars taking place around our world.