A Thousand Splendid Suns

A thousand splendid suns is a novel that involves a lot of abuse throughout the story. The story starts off with a girl named Mariam who lives with her mom Nana. Mariam’s father is Jalil. He doesn’t live with Mariam and Nana but does visit Mariam for one or two hours on Thursday. Jalil has three wives apart from Nana and has other children as well. One day it’s Mariam’s birthday and she asked to go to her father’s movie theater that he owns and she wants to take her sisters along, but Jalil and Nana both think it’s a bad idea. When Jalil visits, Nana always says things behind his back but Mariam never believes them, yet that day that Mariam asks to go with her father Nana was being kind. Once Jalil leaves, Nana tells Mariam “I’ll die if you go, I’ll just die.” Mariam still goes to see Jalil at his house.
The next morning she was woken up by Jalil’s driver and told to leave but she is stubborn and passed by him only to see that he was home and didn’t welcome her in. Jalil’s driver then was taking her home and meanwhile she is crying and feels anger, grief, and disillusionment. When they arrive they got off, the driver said to turn back around but Mariam saw that Nana had hung herself from the willow tree in the yard. They had a funeral for her; once it was done Mariam packed her things to go with