This is actually five stars. I pressed the wrong button. Believe me this a can't put down book.
This is truly the best book I have ever read. I could not put it down once I started to read it and normally I am a slow reader. I have so much respect for the two main women characters. To have lived through such hardships and try to accept their fates under such horrid conditions is admirable. They knew life should not be as it was for them but yet they were helpless to help themselves and when they finally did try to do something about their lives they were betrayed. The women of Afghanistan will never have the freedoms we have but surely there is hope for them. I am forever grateful to live in this country and will never take what I have for granted