"Her “saviour” Debbie Rodriguez, an American hairdresser who founded a salon in Kabul and turned the story into a best-selling book, had rescued her from death threats in the Afghan capital and promised her a new life in San Francisco. However, according to Hossein, she has been abandoned in India while Rodriguez, who drew on the private suffering of her salon girls for the book, has gone on to make a fortune." (thanks Laleh)