This book was both hard to read and hard to put down...We all got a new perspective on what has happened in the middle east...I do not think we, as Americans put much thought into the real people who have lived through and are still living through such a horrendous environment. It also really made me think about how lucky we really are...living our entire lives in a world that believes in us as women...I know that it hasn't been forever that we have been able to be so independent...but it absolutely has never been as horrible as the life Mariam and Laila had to endure! This story was a story of compassion between women...A story of resilience...During my undergraduate days I took a child psych course on development in which we spent some time discussing several books we read on child resiliency...There were many debates on what causes one child to endure so much and then have the ability to overcome it and be a successful adult and then another child to completely fail later on in life...There is this notion that children are resilient and given certain circumstances can prosper in the face of adversity...This story not only shows the resiliency of Laila's children, but that of herself and Tariq. There is something in all of us that can outshine all the evil in the world and gives us the ability to rise up and go on...
This book crippled me with tears and then gave me an inner strength that feels so beautiful.
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