Afghanistan Is Topic At Stephentown Book Group

Learn more about life in Afghanistan at the Stephentown Memorial Library Book Club meeting on Tuesday, September 7, at 7 pm featuring guest speaker J. Thalia Cunningham, M.D., FACEP. Dr. Cunningham, an emergency physician, travel writer and playwright, will discuss her experiences in Afghanistan, which she has visited seven times. She will join the group in discussing Back to Afghanistan: My Journey from California to Kabul by Said Hyder Akbar, which provides some background for the discussion. The public is cordially invited to attend the meeting.
Hyder was a California teenager in 2002 when he joined his father, the scion of an Afghan political family, in a return journey to Afghanistan to help form a new government. The book interweaves Hyder’s struggle to find his own identity in his parents’ homeland with his travels across the country to give a dramatic account of political and civilian life in post-Taliban Afghanistan. The book is co-written by Susan Burton.
Meetings are held in the Community Room at the Stephentown Memorial Library, Main Street, Stephentown. Copies of the Akbar book are available at the Library desk. New readers are always welcome. For more information, call 518-733-5750.