Misty eyed over a book

I just read Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner (a little late in the day - but it is the first book in many years that I want to read again (apart from The Little Prince of course). The book speaks to us about certain painful truths - the death of a childhood that each of us have to confront, how some of us misunderstand fathers, mothers, siblings for the better part of our lives, how uprooted and yet comfortable we can feel far away from our countries and culture, besides being subsumed by forces beyond our control in this case Russians and then Taliban.

I do not remember the last time I was so "attached" to a character in a book. Have started looking for Hassan in the people around me! Can't believe that he didn't survive to meet his Amir Agha again.

Felt alive.