10 New Books to Read This Year by People of Color

Fereiba is a schoolteacher and married to a civil engineer, with whom she's madly in love with. But suddenly her happy, middle-class world is shaken to its core when their country erupts in war and the Taliban rise to power. One night, authorities knock on her door and take her husband away. Heartbroken but determined to save the rest of her family, Fereiba flees with her children in hopes to connect with family in England.