This was an amazing little book that made me laugh and cry, and it always fascinates me to learn of the difficulties that people deal with in other countries. It makes me grateful to live here, I know I take my freedom for granted. Then I read a book about a 10 year old boy going through what t...
This book was Okay. I enjoy reading different life stories (or testimonies). Glad I read it. Doing work and downloaded this to listen to keep my brain active. :)When ten-year-old Enaiatollah Akbari’s small village in Afghanistan falls prey to Taliban rule in early 2000, his mother shepherds the...
We were rowing fast, but we couldn’t shout out encouragement to each other, the way professionals do, who always have someone either behind them or in front saying, And one and two, and one and two, and so on, because rowers row in unison. We couldn’t, because we didn’t want to make a noise, we w...