“ Good People is the year’s first great novel.”— The Minnesota Star Tribune “ Good People is
a stunning read. I could not recommend it more enthusiastically. . . . What a spectacular
triumph this book is. This is the Afghan novel I have been eagerly waiting for.”—Khaled
Hosseini Zorah Sharaf could do no wrong. Zorah Sharaf brought shame upon her family. What’s
the truth? Depends on who you ask. The Sharaf family is the picture of success. Prosperous
rich happy. They came to this country as refugees with nothing more than the clothes on their
backs. And now after years of hard work they live in the most exclusive neighborhood their
growing family attending the most prestigious schools. Zorah the eldest daughter is the apple
of her father’s eye. When an unthinkable tragedy strikes everyone is left reeling and the
family is thrust into the court of public opinion. There is talk that behind closed doors the
Sharafs’ happy household was anything but. Did the Sharaf family achieve the American dream? Or
was the image of the model immigrant family just a façade? Like a literary game of ping-pong
Good People compels the reader to reconsider what might have happened even on the previous
page. Told through a kaleidoscope of perspectives it is a riveting provocative and haunting
story of family—sisters brothers mothers fathers and the communities that claim us as
family in difficult times.
