Books Like The Kite Runner: Sweeping, Heartbreaking Fiction

Abraham Verghese hands you a big, old-fashioned saga and trusts you to sink in. Twin brothers, born of a secret union between a nun and a surgeon and orphaned at birth in an Ethiopian mission hospital, grow up bound to each other and to medicine itself. What follows is a story of betrayal, abandonment, and exile that keeps asking where home is for the people the world has displaced. If you came for the cross-cultural reach and the long road toward forgiveness, this rewards every page.