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ACKNO WLEDGMENTS

I am indebted to the following colleagues for their advice, assis-
tance, or support: Dr. Alfred Lerner, Dori Vakis, Robin Heck, Dr.
Todd Dray, Dr. Robert Tull, and Dr. Sandy Chun. Thanks also to
Lynette Parker of East San Jose Community Law Center for her
advice about adoption procedures, and to Mr. Daoud Wahab for
sharing his experiences in Afghanistan with me. I am grateful to
my dear friend Tamim Ansary for his guidance and support and to
the gang at the San Francisco Writers Workshop for their feed-
back and encouragement. I want to thank my father, my oldest
friend and the inspiration for all that is noble in Baba; my mother
who prayed for me and did nazr at every stage of this book’s writing;
my aunt for buying me books when I was young. Thanks go out to
Ali, Sandy, Daoud, Walid, Raya, Shalla, Zahra, Rob, and Kader for
reading my stories. I want to thank Dr. and Mrs. Kayoumy—my
other parents—for their warmth and unwavering support.
I must thank my agent and friend, Elaine Koster, for her wis-
dom, patience, and gracious ways, as well as Cindy Spiegel, my