ISBN: 152667968X 9781526679680

Category: Fiction / General

Page count: 696

<p><b>Dyslexia-Friendly Edition</b> using sans serif font printed with blue ink on cream paper.<br> <br> Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear. Yet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism.</p>