When the Moon Is Low (Hardcover) by Nadia Hashimi

from scot2

There have been comments about how the ending left the reader hanging. I think the ending was strongly hinted at in the last couple of chapters. Fereiba's feeling her son was swimming, Saleem's laughter in the tunnel and what we were led to believe he was carrying in his pocket, all led me to for...

from whitreidtan

The news doesn't show us much about Afghanistan anymore. Other places and concerns have replaced this particular Middle Eastern country in the public consciousness. But many of the issues that brought it to the fore still exist. The Taliban, women's rights violations, extremism, and so forth have...

from BookDivasReads

Fereiba is a teacher, wife, and mother. Her adult life in Afghanistan is better than even she expected until the Taliban came into power. In a short time she's lost her job and then her husband. Her sole concern is to make a better life for all of her children, the two that are already born and t...

from lit_chick

"Maybe this is how it is meant to be: a wife without a husband. Children without a father. perhaps incomplete is the very definition of a normal family. Where did my lofty expectations come from anyway? Afghanistan is a land of widows and widowers, orphans and the missing. Missing a right leg, a ...

from janerawoof

Heart-rending narratives by a mother and of her 15-year-old son, the family escaping the Taliban. The father had delayed their leaving Afghanistan; later we find out why. After he has been taken away and killed, the mother, Fereiba, and her three children decide to flee with false papers. The nov...