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I had not read Kite Runner, because I had heard it was a "very hard" read. My 89 year old mother took "Suns" to a week-long church camp on Inter-Faith learnings, having been given it by a friend. Looking for something interesting to read, I picked up "Suns" and put it down only when I had to.
"Suns" laid out the lives of two women raised in polar opposite parts of Afghani culture. They were able to become sisters to each other in part because of the ways that each of them had been gifted with a sense of self and the innate value of another. Like others, I was surprised by the clarity and sensitivity with which Hosseini was able to communicate the "female" relationships and feelings
"Suns" helped me feel what it might be like to live in the midst of hourly bombing in a palpable way that our "news" and special reports do not. "Suns" helped me relate the natural and political tragedy of New Orleans to the historical and international tragedy that Afghanistan has become. There is vividly descriptive interpersonal violence and abuse, but it is germane to the meaning of each life.
Hosseini also reminded me of the critical change that can come whenever one affirms the worth of another human being; it is mutually transforming. And, it is never too late to do it.
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I had not read Kite Runner, because I had heard it was a "very hard" read. My 89 year old mother took "Suns" to a week-long church camp on Inter-Faith learnings, having been given it by a friend. Looking for something interesting to read, I picked up "Suns" and put it down only when I had to."Suns" laid out the lives of two women raised in polar opposite parts of Afghani culture. They were able to become sisters to each other in part because of the ways that each of them had been gifted with a sense of self and the innate value of another. Like others, I was surprised by the clarity and sensitivity with which Hosseini was able to communicate the "female" relationships and feelings
"Suns" helped me feel what it might be like to live in the midst of hourly bombing in a palpable way that our "news" and special reports do not. "Suns" helped me relate the natural and political tragedy of New Orleans to the historical and international tragedy that Afghanistan has become. There is vividly descriptive interpersonal violence and abuse, but it is germane to the meaning of each life.
Hosseini also reminded me of the critical change that can come whenever one affirms the worth of another human being; it is mutually transforming. And, it is never too late to do it.
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