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 📍  This book is about two Mexican-American teens trying to find their way in the world, but before they do that, they find each other.  📍 These two teens are Aristotle and Dante, the former guy Ari is a self-doubting silent guy, and Dante is an expressive guy who loves poetry as well.  📍 We experience the story from Ari’s perspective. Ari is not a case of being a bookish, indoor kid who doesn't relate to the rough and tumble world of "normal" boys, actually he likes to fight and drink and he wants a truck and a dog - he just never felt comfortable in the company of boys until he met Dante. 📍 Dante is definitely one of the indoor boys. He is sensitive, he reads poetry and draws too, he is the emotional one, who frequently cries, and he asks highly personal questions with his deeply inquisitive mind.  📍 Throughout the book, Aristotle and Dante are exposed and layered, continually growing more complex but also becoming more bare. Their coming of age story is ...

  📍 In a world where people tend to make assumptions about people and places based on the news, preconceived notions, prejudice, etc., this book really needs to be read.  📍 A Thousand Splendid Suns shows the progression of life in Afghanistan from the Soviet takeover in 1980s through post 9/11 Taliban control. All of this was shown through the eyes of two women - Mariam and Laila. They were trying to live a normal and peaceful life just like everyone else in the world but could they? 📍 It is the story of two poor, uneducated women who have to endure the hardships of life. 📍 The horrors and terrors that a lot of women have gone through during certain period in Afghanistan, is shown here in this book by the eyes of these two women - Mariam and Laila. 📍 It is all shown how they went through all kinds of physical abuse of hitting, kicking, slapping, brutal beating, torture and many other things.  📍 How both of them struggle with the torture of Rasheed, and the sufferin...