Felicitous Fates is the third volume of a trilogy about Masoud and the Crawford families. The patriarch of the Masoud family, Pamir, was a physician, who trained in England, before returning to Afghanistan to aid his homeland and raise his children. Pamir's wife, Madeena, was a mathematician who taught at university level in the pre-Taliban era. We tend to forget that this beleaguered country once, had a substantial secular, population
