Rae Reads

Hosseini successfully created a complex character in Maman - a narcissistic woman who is desperate for love and uses her child as an emotional stand-in for adult relationships. Reading about that particular character was both troubling and fascinating.

Because, actually, Rebecca was super-evil. She slept around with everyone she met and threw it in her husband’s face. She used her maid to cover for her. She put up a good show about being a proper lady of the house, so the husband wouldn’t have a leg to stand on if he tried to divorce her....