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The Second Read at a Different Age
I first read The Kite Runner at 22 and it moved me the way books move you when you are young: completely and without complication. I reread it at 37. The experience was different in almost every way. Not because the book had changed but because I had. The sections about fathers and sons, about guilt carried over decades, about what it costs to be a bystander rather than someone who acts, all of these landed in places the younger version of me did not yet have.


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372 Pages
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15 Years Between Reads

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There is a way to be good again.


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Rereading The Kite Runner
4 Devastating twice
5 Harder now
5 More textured
4 Earned and neat

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Thinking about what other books I read young would change on a second read in middle age. The Kite Runner moved first on my list.