"I am in a women's book group, and we had decided that what we would do is look at books -- not specifically one book, but we decide on a genre -- and then after we do that we specify a list of books and everybody reads one. And you can either do it in kind of a children's book report style or we will as -- if two or three of us read the same book, kind of share and banter about our opinions. So our area that we had chosen was about the Middle East, specifically because we wanted a better understanding of what was going on in Iran and Iraq surrounding the war.
The book surrounds two characters; however, it is mainly historical content, and it actually deals with issues of women's rights. The bigger focus, I would say, is it's about that defining moment in everyone's life when we make a decision and we stick by that decision, good, bad, or indifferent.
It went through a very crucial time period in the history of Afghanistan, and I think there were many historical elements that someone could get from reading that more so than from a history text to understand the time period and the relevance the western world played in shaping to some degree what happened in the Middle East.
I would recommend the book to anyone who had an interest in better understanding the politics of what's going on in the Middle East, anyone who has a sense of knowing our history, our culture. I would give A Thousand Splendid Suns four and a-half out of five stars."
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