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<p><b>The intimate and riveting chronicle of an extraordinarily courageous Afghan-American teenager coming of age in post-9/11</b> <b>Afghanistan</b><b>.</b></p> <p>Building on two acclaimed radio documentaries aired on <i>This American Life</i>, 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 <i>Come Back to Afghanistan</i>, 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

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Author

Said Hyder Akbar and Susan Burton

Publisher

New York ; London: Bloomsbury: Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781582345208

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, Young Adult

Rating

3.83 / 5 (235 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14