![]() ![]() ![]() There are some sympathetic moments, as when Parvana sees the effect on her mother when she wears her dead brother's clothes and realizes, while reading a letter for a recently widowed Taliban soldier, that even the enemy can have feelings. The Taliban laws require women to sheathe themselves fully and ban girls from attending school or going out unescorted thus, Parvana's disguise provides her a measure of freedom and the means to support her family by providing a reading service for illiterates. Parvana's brother was killed years earlier by a land mine explosion and, for much of the story, her father is imprisoned, leaving only her mother, older sister and two very young siblings. Eleven-year-old Parvana must masquerade as a boy to gain access to the outside world and support her dwindling family. Ellis (Looking for X) bases her contemporary novel on refugee stories about the oppressive rule of Afghanistan by the Taliban. ![]()
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