Name: The Secret Sky
ISBN: 9780142424063

Atia Abawi

A tale told from three different perspectives follows the experiences of two teens, a Pashtun and a Hazara, who fight against their cultures and traditions to stay together, and a village boy who betrays them to the local Taliban. Simultaneous eBook.

A Novel of Forbidden Love in Afghanistan

The Secret Sky

Two teens from different ethnic groups in present-day Afghanistan must fight their culture, tradition, families, and the Taliban to stay together as they and another village boy relate the story of their forbidden love.

Nadine 

Quite a brutally realistic depiction of what happens when two people of different status and clans fall in love in Afghanistan. YA level 14+

Jamie Mitchell

** spoiler alert **
           I did not like this book. At all. Not only was it poorly written, but the summary doesn't give you any warning for how horrifying it is. Maybe I'm ignorant, but the summary I read portrayed this book as a modern day Romeo and Juliet.

Instead I got Fatima's own mother pouring boiling hot water on her arms, to the point to where here muscles were exposed, and her three year old sister's neck being snapped. I stopped there. I could not finish.

The Secret Sky A Novel of Forbidden Love in Afghanistan

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