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okay i need to work

i'm sorry but what is this traumatizing read???? still have about 30% of this book to go and it's just breaking my heart every 10 pages

"Then, a thing made of skin and bones, pretending to be Rahim Khan open the door."

"I suspected there were many ways in which Soraya Taheri was a better person than me. Courage was just one of them."

"...how was I supposed to live with that word, "suspicious," for two whole weeks. How was I supposed to eat, work, study? How could he send me home with that word?"

"… Noting the 2 inches of empty space between the collar button and Baba's neck. I thought of all the empty spaces Baba would leave behind when he was gone..."

"He says this is war. There is no shame in war."

"Tell him he's wrong. It doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace."

soo i'm just gonna be sad the whole book?

only 75 pages in and this story is already making me feel dread

"...suddenly looking, really looking, at each other. That's when it happened again: Hassan's face changed. Maybe not changed, not really, but suddenly I had a feeling I was looking at two faces, the one I knew, the one that was my first memory, and another, second face, this one looking just beneath the surface. It happened before it always shook me up a little."