I had started listening to THE KITE RUNNER on audiobook. **SPOILERS**

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2. The story resonated with me, because when I was a child,

I had a similar experience with my best friend, where I could have done more to help a friend of mine, but didn't in a way that later deeply shamed me. He wasn't being raped, but rather, it was some kind of squabble. So reading it and then the fact that he was given the opportunity to make amends in such a deeply moving way, that was something that brought me to tears in so many places in the story, and even now, my eyes are getting misty.

It's not a perfect book - there are one too many encounters with malignant twists of fate. Nonetheless, I didn't find that the imperfections made the story a bad one. I agree that the protagonist isn't the most sympathetic character, but again, I felt the story on a personal level, and I'm grateful that he wrote it.