Dyslexia-Friendly Edition using sans serif font printed with blue ink on cream paper. Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed.Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter.When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear.Yet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism.