"Your sister's pretty good-looking," [my cousin] Jahid said as he tried to blow smoke rings. "I tell you what, if she hadn't been kidnapped, I wouldn't have minded marrying her myself -- being blood and all that."Best-written character since Piscine Molitor Patel, and, coming from me, that's really saying something.
I looked a Jahid, with his rolling eye, lazy leg, and stumpy brown teeth, and thought that if my sister had accepted his offer, I'd have handed her over to the Taliban myself.
Run, don't walk, to go buy this book! Shoo!
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