Exploring Mother-Daughter Relations in Afghan Literature

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The novel so far really reminds me of a book I read called “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini. They both take place in Afghanistan during the time of the Taliban. A significant similarity is the mother-daughter relationship Fereiba had with her stepmother and Mariam from ATSS had with her mother. KokoGul treated Fereiba as if she wasn’t her daughter right from the beginning, more like a maid than anything else. From a very young age, Fereiba has had to cook and clean for everyone in the family. She always isolates Fereiba and compares her to her own daughters. She reminds her that she is not her own right when Fereiba starts to feel like they have a relationship “...everyone knows that you lost your mother. And that makes you different.”

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