A Thousand Splendid Suns

By: Khaled Hosseini

Fiction

2007

Subject Matter: Families; Afghanistan

Rating: 5/5

Deep. Breath.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is heavy stuff.

I approached this one with a lot of skepticism.

Out Came the Sun: Overcoming the Legacy of Mental Illness, Addiction, and Suicide in My Family

By: Mariel Hemingway

Nonfiction

2015

Rating: 3/5

Out Came the Sun is a pretty average book.

Growing Up

By: Russell Baker

Followed by The Good Times

Nonfiction

1982

Rating: 4.5/5

I greatly enjoyed Growing Up, the memoirs of Russell Baker, who grew up in the Depression-WWII era.

Of course, I love me some biography. But autobiographies can be tricky. Sometimes people aren’t the best person to tell their own story (see: The Nazi Connection).