Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples
After her brother and father are taken by the Taliban to fight in a war and her baby brother and mother are killed in an air raid, Najmah, a young Afghan girl is on her own. An American woman, Nusrat, who has given up her successful life in Boston to marry her Pakistani husband, teaches refugee children in her home while her husband, a doctor, is on the war front helping to fight the Taliban. Staples brings these two characters in parallel situations together in a desperate story of two stars that collide.
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