Beautifully explained, Jessica. I applaud your enthusiasm and love for literature. One thing I was puzzled about your speech was not so much emphasis on fictional narratives as much as academic and memoir you presented. My novel about the most persecuted ethnicity in Afghanistan, the Hazaras, who're now brutalized by the Taliban is under work, not sure if it'll interest you. The story is a historical fiction, which starts with a young Hazara boy assassinates King Nadir Shah in 1933.
