RaveThe Guardian\"[The book is] something more than well crafted; it’s phenomenal ... this is more than a coming-of-age novel ... Kochai’s book has a big heart ... When reading writers from places such as Afghanistan we burden them with the additional expectation of bringing us revelations that we are too lazy to find in our news feeds. And here Kochai rises to the task with a truth that three generations of thinktanks, after hundreds of billions in war effort and more billions in aid effort, haven’t been able to unearth.\
