Defiant DreamsAn extraordinary memoir of a young woman from Afghanistan and her struggle to rise above the circumstances into which she was born. A memoir of education, oppression, misogyny, inequality, determination and incredible resilience. 'I began to grow up the day my mother warned me to stop laughing' At age eleven, Sola Mahfouz was told she could no longer attend school. The Taliban threatened that any girl who dared to continue their education would have