Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner author on sea crossings, the power of storytelling and the importance of explaining harsh realities to children
by BILLY PERRIGO
Oct 08, 2018
2 minutes
What inspired you to write Sea Prayer, your new book about a refugee father preparing to make a perilous journey across the Mediterranean? Ever since I saw the photo of Alan Kurdi, the 3-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed up on a beach in Turkey in 2015, I have wanted to write about sea crossings. My entry point into that story was as
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