Title: Under the almond tree
Description: Fifteen year old Samar, the middle child, shares the story of her incredible journey on the Trans-Siberian Express - with the help of Napoleon, the Ticket Collector, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, and her parents and siblings. Forced to flee Kabul as the Russians, then the Taliban, turn their lives inside out, the children and their parents face the loss of their world and their place in it.
Subjects: Fiction, Teenage girls, Refugees, Political refugees, Family secrets, Railroad stories, History, Storytelling - Fiction, Taliban
Places: Afghanistan
Time periods: 20th century