β Scribed by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
"This imaginative but very real look into war-torn Syria is a must." βBooklist (starred review)
This rich, moving, and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what The Kite Runner was to Afghanistan; the story of two girls living eight hundred years apartβa modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and a medieval adventurer apprenticed to a legendary mapmakerβplaces today's headlines in the sweep of history, where the pain of exile and the triumph of courage echo again and again.
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 storyβthe 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...
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