Author of International Best-seller, The Pearl That Broke Its Shell
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“an elegiac tribute to family and civilization” –BookPage
“thrilling and moving” –Booklist
“A must read” –Marie Claire, NY Post, and Woman’s Day Magazine
An Afghan American woman returns to Kabul to learn the truth about her family and the tragedy that destroyed their lives in this brilliant and compelling novel.
Coming March 2, 2021
“Nadia Hashimi has written a tender and beautiful family story. Her always engaging multigenerational tale is a portrait of Afghanistan in all of its perplexing, enigmatic glory, and a mirror into the still ongoing struggles of Afghan women.”
–Khaled Hosseini, author of And the Mountains Echoed and The Kite Runner
“will offer students a window into life in Afghanistan and open interesting, age-appropriate conversations about gender expectations and roles in different countries.”
–School Library Journal (starred review)
Nadia Hashimi was born and raised in New York and New Jersey. Both her parents were born in Afghanistan and left in the early 1970s, before the Soviet invasion. Her mother, granddaughter of a notable Afghan poet, traveled to Europe to obtain a Master’s degree in civil engineering and her father came to the United States…read more