The book intertwines the stories of Najmah , an Afghan girl effectively orphaned by the war -LRB- her mother and infant brother killed in an air raid , her father and older brother conscripted by the Taliban -RRB- , and Nusrat , an American convert to Islam who teaches refugee children under a persimmon tree in Peshawar , Pakistan .
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