![]() Under the rule of their husband and the Taliban, the two tell a riveting and heartbreaking story of what their lives have become. Twisting the family ties as only Hosseini can, the two women face the ever changing Afghanistan landscape together. Mariam and Laila are from very different backgrounds and are part of a different family setting in their marriage. Like TKR, the book looks at family dynamics. She agrees to marry Rasheed and she and Mariam begin their journey as wife, and later, mother. ![]() ![]() She went to school for many years, but after the death of her parents, Rasheed and Mariam take her in. Laila is the young daughter of the family who lives a few houses done from Mariam and Laila. After a series of events, she is married to Rasheed, a man roughly 30 years her senior, when she is 15. Mariam is the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy man who lives in a smaller village. The story is told in four parts with alternating third-person perspectives coming from the two women, Mariam and Laila. But both books also deal with family, Afghanistan, religion, loss, love, and regrets. The characters are fairly wealthy in TKR in ATSS, the characters struggle to survive. In that book, the characters leave Kabul in this one, they stay. Where there is very little about women in that book this one deals almost exclusively with the effects of war, loss, the Taliban, etc. In a way, this book is everything TKR isn't. ![]()
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