What Is Parvana's Place In Afghanistan?

This novel takes place in Afghanistan, which has been under Taliban control for about a year and a half. Living conditions are forlorn to say the least.Girls can’t go to school, and have to wear abayas to cover their bodies and faces,in addition to not being allowed outside without the company of a man. Parvana, the protagonist, is lucky because she gets to go to the marketplace with her father, who reads letters for money, while her mother, sister and younger siblings are stuck in her tiny apartment.
After soldiers kidnap her father and take him away to prison, Parvana, who’s the only one that can pass for a boy, is forced to take over her father’s job.Dressed in her dead brother’s clothing,who was killed by one of the land mines buried in the ground, Parvana starts finding small presents on her marketplace blanket and becomes aware of the presence of a woman looking down at her from the window above.At the marketplace, Parvana befriends a girl from her school who is also disguised as a boy and together they begin to dig up bones in the graveyard and selling them to gain some extra money. …show more content…
Parvana decides to stay behind, with Mrs.Weera, in case her father is released from prison.One rainy night, Parvana rescues Homa, a crying woman who is running away from the Taliban without a burqa; she and Mrs Weera take Homa in , Father comes back from prison and they become great friends since they both speak english.After a while, Parvana and Father leave for Mazar, hiddenin the back of a truck, to search for their family in the refugee