For Fans of A Thousand Splendid Suns

I loved A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam. I loved it. I have been recommending it to everyone at my library, especially fans of Khaled Hosseini. A Golden Age is set during the Bangladesh Independence movement. Chalk it up to my shocking ignorance of the history of that part of the world but I had no idea that Bangladesh was once East Pakistan. I enjoyed the book just for the new understanding of history that it provided me.

I also enjoyed the story. The main character was the mother of two young members of the independence movement. Her son and daughter were taking terrible chances and, because of that, she chose to take chances too. She never really considered the movement her own but, really, she was just as much or more a part of it than her children were. Yes, the story was about a country's fight for independence but it was also the story of a mother's love. I highly recommend it.