Author: Nadia Hashimi

I’ve had this book for quite awhile but I first heard of it long before I picked it up (from somewhere). I don’t know why it took me so long to read it; maybe because the recommendation came from a friend who has passed and I didn’t want to break that small connection.

The book follows the lives of two Afghan women; Shekiba is the great-great-grandmother of Rahima. The story is told with a chapter about one woman and the next chapter about the other woman. I found this to be very confusing and eventually blocked off a section and read only one story and then, on another sitting, went back and read the chapters of the other story.

Both stories are interesting but at the end it felt unresolved. For that reason, and the way it is written, it dropped lower on my Goodreads scale.

Goodreads Rating: * * *