A heart touching ,emotional book that speaks the unspeakable sufferings of the woman of Afghan.The book gets more interesting while the two female leads life intersect.Sweet and lovely Mariam,who craves for her father's recognition ; beautiful and intelligent Laila ,who have never encountered a gender discrimination ; Both the girls gets married to Rashid a shoemaker whose only wish is to get a son and leads a life of total misery.The book was so touching and worth more than a thousand reads.