A Thousand Splendid Suns Locus Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Book (2013) Never before has a presidency

Never before has a presidency so divided the American people

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But the command school is a battlefield - and Darrow isn't the only student with an agenda

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Losing means certain death

A Thousand Splendid Suns Locus Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Book (2013) Never before has a presidencyMariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry the troubled and bitter Rasheed, who is thirty years her senior. Nearly two decades later, in a climate of growing unrest, tragedy strikes fifteen year old Laila, who must leave her home and join Mariam's unhappy household. Laila and Mariam are to find consolation in each other, their friendship to grow as deep as the bond between sisters, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. With