This week, we feature two splendid novels about boys’ friendships: one set in tumultuous Afghanistan and the other in Brooklyn, New York, in the ‘40s.
Fiction
A Tale of Friendship and Redemption
‘The Kite Runner’ By Khaled HosseiniOriginally published in 2003, this emotionally deep novel immerses readers in a country in chaos and a friendship strained by class divides and a guilty conscience. Amir and Hassan are torn apart by an act of childhood violence that haunts both of them for decades.
