There are two specific parts in the book that I felt specifically drawn to. 1. When Amir's father Baba dies and 2. the ending - when Amir and Sohrab were running a kite together. The passages below specifically:
"Listening to them, I realize how much of who I was, what I was, had been defined by Baba and the marks he had left on people's lives. My whole life, I had been "Baba's son." Now he was gone. Baba couldn't show me the way anymore; I'd have to find it on my own. The thought of it terrified me."
"It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make anything all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. I ran.....I ran"
I'm officially on the bandwagon :)
I might add that kites were one of Leo's favorite things to play with on a windy day...I have many memories of flying kites with him on the shores of a few Great Lakes.
xox,
Kathryn
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