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An American Bride in Kabul is an intriguing, riveting and dramatic tale of how an American woman’s harrowing experience in a harem in Afghanistan shaped her into a feminist leader and a human rights activist. Summary of the Book An American Bride in Kabul follows the life and experiences of the bestselling author and a feminist psychologist, Phyllis Chesler. Eighteen years old and madly in love, Phyllis Chesler, a Jewish-American lady from Brooklyn, embarked upon a passionate love affair with a charming foreign student from Afghanistan. Upon arrival in Kabul in 1961 with her Afghan groom, her American passport was seized. Chesler was trapped in her husband’s humongous joint family without friends, rights or freedom. Her husband’s family made a serious attempt to convert her to Islam, while her husband wished to tie her down to Afghanistan through childbirth. Drawing upon her personal diaries and journals, she recounts her trials and tribulations in Afghanistan and her longing to explore the rugged, beautiful and exotic country in which she was trapped for life. Invigorating and riveting, An American Bride in Kabul is a memoir of how Chesler escaped from Afghanistan and turned her hardships into a passion for social and political reform. About Phyllis Chesler Phyllis Chesler is an American author, psychotherapist and a professor of women’s studies at the College of Staten Island. She is best known for writing Women and Madness. Some of her other notable works include About Men, With Child, and Sacred Bond.