“Death here would be nothing more than a stray bullet. This was war. Chaos, blood, and smoke. I tried to run, but my feet wouldn’t move.”
Set against the backdrop of the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s, The Broken Circle: A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan by Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller is a captivating yet painstaking story told from the point of view of little Enjeela. The novel vividly captures the pain, insecurities and hopes of a child fighting hard to unite with her family.