The Bookseller of Kabul

Well written, but this book is making me really angry. I'm having a hard time not using my personal western values to judge the people in the story, and I know it isn't fair to do so. I keep getting really angry about the way the women are treated, and how they just lie down like doormats and let men walk all over them. Regardless of how many years of tradition and cultural history are involved, many things that occur just seem wrong to me on the basis of human rights violations. It was interesting that the author, who lived with the family featured in the book, says she never was as angry, or wanted to hit someone so much as during the time she spent living with the family writing the book. I've not yet finished, and am halfway through, so it will be interesting to see if my opinion changes after I'm done reading.