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In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what yo...more

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Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

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My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want th...more

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When Aziza first spotted Mariam in the morning, her eyes always sprang open, and she began mewling and squirming in her mother's grip. She thrust her ...more

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She will not plant the seed in their mind, that a parent is capable of abandoning her children, of saying to them You are not enough. For Pari, the ch...more

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Baba and I lived in the same house, but in different spheres of existence. Kites were the one paper-thin slice of intersection between those spheres.