num_pages: 464
description: Kabul 1978: The daughter of a prominent family Sitara Zamani lives a privileged life in Afghanistans thriving cosmopolitan capital. The 1970s are a time of remarkable promise under the leadership of people like Sardar Daoud Afghanistans progressive president and Sitaras beloved father his right-hand man. But the ten-year-old Sitaras world is shattered when communists stage a coup assassinating the president and Sitaras entire family. Only she survives. Smuggled out of the palace by a guard named Shair Sitara finds her way to the home of a female American diplomat who adopts her and raises her in America. In her new country Sitara takes on a new nameAryana Shepherdand throws herself into her studies eventually becoming a renowned surgeon.New York 2008: Thirty years after that fatal night in Kabul Aryanas world is rocked again when an elderly patient appears in her examination rooma man she never expected to see again. It is Shair the soldier who saved her yet may have murdered her entire family. Seeing him awakens Aryanas fury and desire for answersand perhaps revenge.
language: English
title: Sparks Like Stars
publisher: William Morrow