A review by leavingsealevel
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie

4.0

I seem to have created a depressing little January tradition for myself: read a really sad book that is simultaneously about the atomic bombs + racial profiling in the wake of September 11th (see also: [b:Hiroshima in the Morning|8465962|Hiroshima in the Morning|Rahna Reiko Rizzuto|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41OOj2nVaEL._SL75_.jpg|13330445]). Burnt Shadows is heartbreaking, infuriating, beautiful. I find myself comparing it to [b:The Kite Runner|77203|The Kite Runner|Khaled Hosseini|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1309288316s/77203.jpg|3295919], but this is a much more complicated book.