Dear readers, thank you for asking me when you can expect the next book, for inviting me into your living rooms, and for keeping me on my toes. Your personal notes give the work meaning. To organizers of book festivals, humanities organizations, librarians, teachers, bookshop champions, narrators, translators, journalists, and all who continue to uphold the importance of storytelling in its many forms, we are all forever in your debt.

Until next time.

About the Author

NADIA HASHIMI is a pediatrician and the author of three bestselling novels. Her parents left Afghanistan in the 1970s, before the Soviet invasion. She lives with her husband, an Afghan-born neurosurgeon, and their four children in the Washington, D.C., suburbs.

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