Chapter 13: Mixed-Up Emotion

Parvana feels both relieved and sulky about not going to Mazar-e-Sharif. Describe a time you have felt that kind of mixed emotion.

Chapter 11: Why Include Hard Scenes?

What happens at the soccer stadium? Why do you think the author chooses to include scenes like this one and the scene about the bone-digging?

Chapter 10: Predict the Future

The girls say that they must remember the experience of bone-digging when they are rich old ladies drinking tea together. Do you think that vision of their future will come true? Why do you think that?