#ExcerptWeek – Drunk Chickens and Burnt Macaroni: Real Stories of Afghan Women by Mary Smith
Check out this excerpt from Drunk Chickens and Burnt Macaroni, by Mary Smith. Mary’s travels make for truly fascinating reading! You’ll enjoy it, I’m sure.
This memoir takes the reader on a journey through Afghanistan, meeting the women with whom Mary Smith worked and provides a remarkable insight into their lives. Share in the day-to-day lives of women like Sharifa and Marzia: the dramas, the tears and the laughter.
As well as the opportunity to get to know the women, Drunk Chickens and Burnt Macaroni allows the reader through some of the most stunning and dramatic landscapes in the world And if you want to know why the chickens were drunk and the macaroni burnt – you’ll have to buy the book!
Excerpt: this is from chapter seven when the trainee health volunteers request a family planning lesson.
Before we started on lessons about healthy pregnancies and deliveries, the students requested a class on family planning. It was the contraceptive pill they most wanted to hear about.
‘Is it true,’ asked Kulsom, ‘that if…
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