Zahra Joya’s memoir, The Vanishing Girl of Kabul, is a chronicle of the horrors of life under the Taliban - Rober Solsona/Europa Press via Getty Images Zahra Joya had been five years old when the Taliban first seized power. When they did it a second time, in August 2021, she was 28. One day she was having lunch with a fellow journalist in Kabul; the next, she saw billboards that featured women being defaced. On one of them, someone had drawn blood dripping from a model’s eyes.