"Hashimi's narrative is telenovela-good-daring adventurers, deadly secrets, family drama, the beloved dead, a politician-in-the-making, true love, and more." - Booklist (starred review)
"The question of whether Sitara can go home again is the existential and physical journey Hashimi conjures, in a story at once surreal and deeply rooted in the history of Afghanistan's modern turmoil and ancient enchantment." - NPR
"A fascinating epic tale." - New York Post
"Thrilling and moving" - Booklist
"The novel is an elegiac tribute to family and civilization-fragile collective entities that should be cherished while they still hold." - BookPage
Nadia Hashimi was born and raised in New York and New Jersey. Both her parents were born in Afghanistan and left in the early 1970s, before the Soviet invasion. In 2002, Nadia made her first trip to Afghanistan with her parents. She is a pediatrician and lives with her family in the Washington, DC, suburbs. She is the author of three books for adults, as well as the middle grade novels One Half from the East and The Sky at Our Feet. Visit her online at www.nadiahashimi.com.