Designed for book club members, general readers, and high school students, each title in this series focuses on a widely read contemporary author. The writers covered are selected from book club reading lists along with feedback from librarians around the country. Chapters examine the author's life and works, attention to current events and social issues, and presence in pop culture. The volumes provide sidebars of interesting information, questions promoting book club discussions and student research, and lists of print and electronic resources for further reading. Khaled Hosseini has enjoyed critical success and popular accolades. His works, including "The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns", are widely read by book clubs. This guide introduces Hosseini's works and their relevance to today's world. It looks at his novels, summarizing their plots and discussing his characters, themes, and contexts. The book gives close attention to his handling of current events in his works, and to the presence of his fiction in popular culture.