Poetic seems too bland spiritual too religious. I struggled to find a word that would describe the tone of Staples’ prose. The change has been a quickening - an awakening that transcends specifics. it didn’t leave me more grateful that I am not living in a war-torn, impoverished nation, and it hasn’t made me re-think my political or religious preferences. Yes, I learned far more than I knew about this ancient culture, but that is only a part of it. This exquisitely beautiful book changed me in ways I am having a hard time nailing down. How can you tell its story with honesty, sensitivity and realism without leaving the reader depressed, angry or apathetic? Suzanne Fisher Staples, who worked in the region as a journalist, has found a way. Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher StaplesĪfghanistan is a land of war and poverty in which there are rarely any happy endings.
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