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Jane Snow

Jane has received numerous national and state awards for food reporting, including two James Beard Awards. She is also a seven-time winner of the Ohio Nutrition Council’s Media Excellence Award for nutrition reporting. She has been nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize, and her food section with the former Knight Ridder was named best in the country in its circulation category three times between 1999 and 2006. She is past president of the Association of Food Journalists.

A Thousand Splendid Suns/
Kite Runner

Double book exploration

Book Exploration
By Chuck Bowen

In his first novel The Kite Runner, and now A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini writes about the Afghans caught in the middle of a seemingly endless string of wars and battles for power. Both novels paint a grim and moving picture of life in a war-torn country, and of lives lived in the face of hunger, death and a bleak future. Hosseini makes you realize that, even while bombs rain down and people are dying of hunger, people still fall in love, seek friends and, mostly, try to remain human.