An inspiring follow-up memoir about leaving Afghanistan and starting over in Mexico from the author of the international bestseller Kabul Beauty School that Entertainment Weekly called “bighearted and entertaining.”Irreverent, blatantly honest, and touching, Margarita Wednesdays is the story of Deborah Rodriguez’s intimate and often hilarious journey of self-discovery and renewal after she is forced to flee Afghanistan in 2007. She first lands in California where she feels like a misfit and teeters on the edge of a nervous breakdown while suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. From being told to commune with glowworms to fishing with a weed-smoking Indian on a reservation and working out with strippers, at the age of fifty Rodriguez decides to focus for the first time on who she really is and who, and where, she’s meant to be. Despite having no plan, no friends, and no Spanish, a perplexed Rodriguez soon finds herself swept up in a world where the music never stops and a new life can begin. She packs her life into her Mini Cooper and moves to a seaside town in Mexico. There she learns Spanish, finds new friends, new love, and new family. She opens Tippy Toes, an overnight salon sensation, and in the magic of Mexico, she builds the life she never knew was possible—a life on her own terms. Just like Rodriguez’s Kabul Beauty School, Margarita Wednesdays is destined to live on in the hearts and minds of readers everywhere.