A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS PENGUIN — KHALED HOSSEINI

Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed Nearly two decades later a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager Laila as strong as the ties between mother and daughter When the Taliban take over life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation brutality and fear Yet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism