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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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And here she was now, over those boulders and parched hills, with a home of her own, a husband of her own, heading toward one final, cherished province: Motherhood.†
p. 88.9 *

parched = dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; or very thirsty
When she was done speaking, her heart was hammering and her mouth felt parched.†
p. 226.5
And though her throat was parched with thirst and her feet burned with pins and needles, it was a long time before Mariam gently freed her finger from the baby's grip and got up.†
p. 244.6
And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them.†
p. 256.3
When she woke up, she checked on Aziza, felt the parched cracks of her lips, the faint pulse at her neck, lay down again.†
p. 271.7
All over the country, farmers were leaving behind their parched lands, selling off their goods, roaming from village to village looking for water.†
p. 293.7
At the Kabul River, vendors moved into the parched riverbed.†
p. 303.7

Definitions:

(1) (parched)
dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; or very thirsty
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)