Holeman, Linda. The Moonlit Cage.(Brief article)(Book review)

Holeman, Linda. The Moonlit Cage. Three Rivers: Crown. Mar. 2007. c.496p. ISBN 0-307-34649-8 [ISBN 978-0-307-34649-0]. pap. $14.95. F

Darya, a young Muslim girl, has lived her whole life among family and friends in a small village on the border of Afghanistan and India, yet something in her rebels at the social constraints placed upon her. She need not yearn for change, as it is forced upon her by her stepmother, who trades her in marriage to a stranger from another tribe. Darya must accept a nomadic life among a people who both despise her and are threatened by her intelligence. The story follows Darya as she endures …