San Francisco Chronicle BestsellerPerfect for reading groups, this brilliant debut illuminates how the choices we make can have far-reaching consequences“Nafisa Haji has written a moving meditation on the meaning of family, tradition, and the ties that bind. Lyrical and touching . . . it is a story of mother and daughters, and a story of a young Muslim woman at crossroads, shaped by the forces of her past, her religion, her roots, her culture, and her own determined will.”—Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner