I was afraid that A Thousand Splendid Suns, Hosseini’s second book, would not live up to Kite Runner, his first. However, this worked me just as much as that one, if not more, because he centers the story on female characters this time. I almost literally could not put this down. It is a beautiful, sad, and immensely disturbing insight into the lives of two women living in Afghanistan over the last decade. I would reccommend this to everyone and anyone. I think the whole world needs to read this book.