" I just read this book for the Gardiner bookclub. I was really disappointed, partly because I thought the author was someone who considered himself to be Afganistan. Although he was raised in Afghanistan, his mother is American, and he considers himself to be American. Learning about how he was raised in Afghanistan is interesting and caught my attention. Then is journey of self-discovery could have been omitted completely. It felt like I was along on someone's bad vacation. The last part, "Forgetting Afganistan" was insightful at times. It was also interesting to learn how each of his siblings had adapted to being in the US, but this theme was not developed very little. "
— Heidi, 11/1/2013