Last week I finally finished The Kite Runner<\/cite><\/a>, and definitely enjoyed it. Parts of the novel are extremely powerful, and it nicely raises important questions of diversity. You could easily transplant many of the issues from Afghanistan to, for example, the American south and get something not unlike To kill a mockingbird<\/cite>.<\/p>\n

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Last week I finally finished The Kite Runner, and definitely enjoyed it. Parts of the novel are extremely powerful, and it nicely raises important questions of diversity. You could easily transplant many of the issues from Afghanistan to, for example, the American south and get something not unlike To kill a mockingbird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/01\/08\/2-of-many-cool-xmas-presents\/","url_meta":{"origin":60,"position":0},"title":"2 (of many) cool Xmas presents","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"8 Jan 05","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm trying out the Amazon plugin, so I figured I'd use it to put in a plug for two Christmas prezzies that are pretty cool. First, one of the many excellent CDs I got was Antibalas' Who is this America, which is seriously excellent. Great Fela-Kuti-style afropop with wonderful (long)\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Books"","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/writing\/books\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}