In the Land of Blue Berkas by Kate McCord

In the Land of Blue Berkas by Kate McCord. She was a missionary in Afghanistan, which is the land of blue Berkas. Women are usually culturally wearing these long blue Berkas all the way to the ground. It's this memoir of her time there working mostly with women in a very conservative Muslim culture. When she read it to the women, they took they had a very different impression. They immediately identified with that woman. In our culture, a woman doesn't have the right or the ability to choose what man she's going to go be with. She's given to her husband. The fact that this woman was had five husbands meant that she'd been essentially abandoned by five