The map of salt and stars /
Joukhadar, Jennifer Zeynab,
The map of salt and stars / Map of salt & stars Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar. - First Touchstone hardcover edition. - 360 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Maps on end caps.
Includes bibliographical references.
"In the summer of 2011, just after Nour loses her father to cancer, her mother moves Nour and her sisters from New York City back to Syria to be closer to their family. In order to keep her father's spirit as she adjusts to her new home, Nour tells herself their favorite story--the tale of Rawiya, a twelfth-century girl who disguised herself as a boy in order to apprentice herself to a famous mapmaker. But the Syria Nour's parents knew is changing, and it isn't long before the war reaches their quiet Homs neighborhood. When a stray shell destroys Nour's house and almost takes her life, she and her family are forced to choose: stay and risk more violence or flee across seven countries of the Middle East and North Africa in search of safety--along the very route Rawiya and her mapmaker took eight hundred years before in their quest to chart the world"--Amazon.com.
9781501169038 1501169033 9781501169052 150116905X
2017029991
Refugee children--Syria--Fiction.
Refugees--Syria--Fiction.
Moving, Household--Fiction.
Fathers--Death--Fiction.
Homs (Syria)--Fiction.
Syria--History--Civil War, 2011---Fiction.
The map of salt and stars / Map of salt & stars Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar. - First Touchstone hardcover edition. - 360 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Maps on end caps.
Includes bibliographical references.
"In the summer of 2011, just after Nour loses her father to cancer, her mother moves Nour and her sisters from New York City back to Syria to be closer to their family. In order to keep her father's spirit as she adjusts to her new home, Nour tells herself their favorite story--the tale of Rawiya, a twelfth-century girl who disguised herself as a boy in order to apprentice herself to a famous mapmaker. But the Syria Nour's parents knew is changing, and it isn't long before the war reaches their quiet Homs neighborhood. When a stray shell destroys Nour's house and almost takes her life, she and her family are forced to choose: stay and risk more violence or flee across seven countries of the Middle East and North Africa in search of safety--along the very route Rawiya and her mapmaker took eight hundred years before in their quest to chart the world"--Amazon.com.
9781501169038 1501169033 9781501169052 150116905X
2017029991
Refugee children--Syria--Fiction.
Refugees--Syria--Fiction.
Moving, Household--Fiction.
Fathers--Death--Fiction.
Homs (Syria)--Fiction.
Syria--History--Civil War, 2011---Fiction.