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Last Updated August 4, 2024.
- Farah Ahmedi's memoir, The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky (2003), chronicles her childhood in Kabul. At the time of publication, Ahmedi was a high school student in Illinois. She earned the chance to share her life story by winning an essay contest sponsored by Good Morning America. Her narrative of growing up in 1990s Kabul provides a real-life parallel to the 1970s Kabul depicted in The Kite Runner. Before relocating to the United States, Ahmedi lost her leg to a land mine and family members to a Taliban rocket attack on her home.
- Jessica Hagedorn's novel Dogeaters (1990) differs significantly from The Kite Runner, yet it also explores a young person's immigration journey from the Philippines to the United States. In Dogeaters, characters grapple with adapting to American culture while maintaining sometimes uneasy connections to Filipino culture and the Philippines' volatile contemporary history.
- Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez: An Autobiography (1982) shares the author's childhood experiences within a Mexican immigrant family. Rodriguez's story of navigating the cultural and linguistic divides between his adopted culture and his family's traditions echoes Amir's experiences in The Kite Runner.
- Henri J. Barkey's essay "The United States and Afghanistan: From Marginality to Global Concern" examines the post-September 11 relationship between the United States and Afghanistan. The article discusses how U.S. foreign policy influenced political developments in the twenty-first century. Barkey's work is included in The Middle East and the United States: A Historical and Political Reassessment (2003), edited by David W. Lesch.
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