Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller - The Broken Circle - A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan

I would like to acknowledge a few other parties for their support and assistance in the creation of this book. They include my son, Alexander Miller, to whom this story is dedicated; my sister Vida Ahmadi; my best friend, Vivian Lombardi; Henry S. Miller; Brandon Rutledge; and my literary agent, Leticia Gomez. I would also like to acknowledge my editor, Erin Calligan Mooney, who showed interest in my story.

Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller was born in 1975 in Kabul, Afghanistan, and is now a citizen of the United States. She also lived in Pakistan and India and speaks several languages, including Farsi, English, Hindi, and Urdu.

An entrepreneur since the age of eighteen, she has owned several businesses: a restaurant (Angelo’s Pizza in Los Angeles); a cosmetics line (Ahmadi, sold in spas and salons in LA); retail stores (Bella Bella, Friction, and Milan, all in Dallas); and a clothing line (Henry III Generation, sold in Neiman Marcus and boutiques throughout the US). In 2004 she married prominent Dallas real estate guru Henry S. Miller III, and in 2005 their son, Alexander, was born. A dynamic mother who strives to be as open and giving as possible, she maintains a creative, passionate, artistic, and spiritual outlook on life.

Text copyright © 2019 by Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller

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The events expressed in this book, while true, were composed from the author’s memory. Some of the names and identities of people in this book have been altered or composited for the sake of simplicity and to protect privacy.

Poems by Hafiz translated into English by the author

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ISBN-13: 9781503903784 (hardcover)

ISBN-10: 1503903788 (hardcover)

ISBN-13: 9781503903760 (paperback)

ISBN-10: 1503903761 (paperback)

Cover design by Faceout Studio, Jeff Miller

Cover illustration by Christina Chung

Interior map by Mapping Specialists, Ltd.

First edition