March 15, 2021
 March 15, 2021 This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this spring. Read more about it, and enter our Spring Preview Contest by Tuesday, March 16th at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of SPARKS LIKE STARS by Nadia Hashimi, which is now available. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!  Today's Featured Book and Contest:  An Afghan American woman returns to Kabul to learn the truth about her family and the tragedy that destroyed their lives in this brilliant and compelling novel from the bestselling author of THE PEARL THAT BROKE ITS SHELL, A HOUSE WITHOUT WINDOWS and WHEN THE MOON IS LOW. “A fascinating epic tale.” —The New York Post Smuggled out of the palace by a guard named Shair, Sitara finds her way to the home of a female American diplomat, who adopts her and raises her in America. In her new country, Sitara takes on a new name --- Aryana Shepherd --- and throws herself into her studies, eventually becoming a renowned surgeon. A survivor, Aryana has refused to look back, choosing instead to bury the trauma and devastating loss she endured. New York, 2008: Forty years after that fatal night in Kabul, Aryana’s world is rocked again when an elderly patient appears in her examination room --- a man she never expected to see again. It is Shair, the soldier who saved her, yet may have murdered her entire family. Seeing him awakens Aryana’s fury and desire for answers --- and, perhaps, revenge. Realizing that she cannot go on without finding the truth, Aryana embarks on a quest that takes her back to Kabul --- a battleground between the corrupt government and the fundamentalist Taliban --- and through shadowy memories of the world she loved and lost. Bold, illuminating and heartbreaking, yet hopeful, SPARKS LIKE STARS is a story of home --- of America and Afghanistan, tragedy and survival, reinvention and remembrance, told in Nadia Hashimi’s singular voice. Click here to enter the contest by noon ET This is a special newsletter for our Spring Preview contests, which will mail on select days in March and April. This newsletter is separate from our weekly Bookreporter.com newsletter, which mails every Friday. You can subscribe to that newsletter here. Please visit the other websites in TheBookReportNetwork.com: ReadingGroupGuides.com and AuthorsOnTheWeb.com. |
