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The Patience Stone
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Start date
January 1, 2023
Finish date
January 31, 2023
Why we're reading this
This choice from Afghanistan is from Ann Morgan's list from her A Year of Reading the World list…more

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Elise
Feb 05, 2023 rated it it was ok
This story was dark, even the story within the story about a princess is dark. While this story is supposed to be about an Afghan woman but you can definitely tell it was written by a man and is only told through what a comatose male character can see or hear. A woman is taking care of her comatose husband in her house with her 2 young daughters. He was shot in the neck because he was a fighter in a civil conflict, that conflict comes to their neighborhood and it is no longer safe to stay there ...more