Irreverent, honest and touching, this is the story of Deborah Rodriguez's intimate and often hilarious journey of self-discovery. Forced to flee her life in Afghanistan in 2007, after living in Kabul for five years, 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, 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. She packs her life into her Mini Cooper and moves to a seaside town in Mexico. There she learns Spanish and builds the life she never knew was possible - a life on her own terms. If you liked Eat, Pray, Love you will love The House on Carnaval Street. Rodriguez's story speaks to every woman, mother, sister, wife - to anyone who has ever questioned their relationships, their place in the world and the choices that they've made.