I agree with Anna and Justin in that I found it similar to ATSS. After reading ATSS, which was written in such a way as to arouse deep emotion (pathos) from the reader, I found Bookseller to be impersonal, almost cold. Whereas Hosseini pushed the reader along in terms of pathos, Seierstad's retellings are open-ended and subtle; she doesn't lead you either way but rather lets the story speak for itself. In this way, Hosseini's story was much more manipulative and calculated. Bookseller feels more narrative to me in that the purpose isn't as clear as it was in ATSS. I personally like ATSS much more; the story was enthralling and I felt a clear connection with the characters. ATTS's purpose was crystal-clear, and can really only be interpreted in one way. However, in Bookseller there are more subtle implications and I think that you can do more with it in terms of rhetorical analysis because there are so many ways that it can be interpreted.