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Chuck Bowen — A graduate of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, Chuck has spent his career covering hobos, cockfights and the life-science industry for newspapers and magazines. His work has appeared in Cleveland Magazine, Columbus Monthly, The Indianapolis Star, The New York Times and for The Associated Press and the Agence France-Presse. He lives near Cleveland with his wife, Becky, and his daughter, Miranda.

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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.