Some of the questions we received for Monday’s show with Rula Ghani, the First Lady of Afghanistan, were after the same information: What should Americans know about Afghanistan that we don’t? Ghani recommended some books she thought best explained her country and culture.

Ghani recommends this book “for a first person account of the life an Afghan family during the civil wars of the 1980s and ’90s.”

“A young Britisher walks through the Afghan countryside on three different instances.  Beautiful descriptions of a beautiful country,” Ghani says.

Both of these books offer good insight into how the U.S. got involved in Afghanistan before Sept. 11.

Miss our show with Ghani? Listen and watch to the interview here.