Summary Of A Thousand Splendid Suns

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a story about a girl named Mariam, the story takes place in the 1960s she lives in Herat ,Afghanistan she is a troubled girl because she has a very difficult relationship with her mother Nana who is not doing so well economically. Miriam also has a father, Jalil and he is doing very well economically he has a job as a business mas and has other 3 wives and many other brothers and sisters , but he takes time to see Miriam once a week because she is and illegitimate child.One day she tells her father that she wants to live with him and his family and he agrees but then never shows up , so Miriam decides to go look for him and finds his house but he does not let her in and so she stays there and spends the night sleeping there and Jalil tells his driver to taker her home , but something bad happens and when she arrives at her house she finds her mother Nana dead , she had committed suicide. After the funeral Miriam is taken to her fathers house but as it was expected his other wives do not want anything to do with her because she is not heir child or their responsibility,so they tell Jalil to let her

In Kabul Laila rebuilds her life with her family and becomes a school teacher in the same orphanage where her daughter once lived. Laila becomes pregnant again and in honor of Miriam she decides that it the baby is girl she will give her the name of