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AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED – Khaled Hosseini

I don’t know how I’ve managed to go so long without reading anything by Khaled Hosseini, but here I am in 2021 reviewing my first book by this master storyteller. And the Mountains Echoed (Riverhead Books 2013) is a novel I am unlikely to forget in this lifetime or the next. The decisions the charactersContinue reading “AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED – Khaled Hosseini”

I received an advanced reader’s edition of When the Moon is Low by Nadia Hashimi through The Reading Room. (Yay! Books!) With my background in multicultural literature, I was thrilled to get this story set in Kabul by an Afghan American. This was a story that wanted to be told and a story I wantedContinue reading