[i]This imaginative but very real look into war-torn Syria is a must. Booklist.[/i]
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 aparta modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and a medieval adventurer apprenticed to a legendary mapmakerplaces todays 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 fathers spirit as she adjusts to her new home, Nour tells herself their favorite storythe 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 Nours parents knew is changing, and it isnt long before the war reaches their quiet Homs neighborhood. When a stray shell destroys Nours 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 safetyalong the very route Rawiya and her mapmaker took eight hundred years before in their quest to chart the world. As Nours family decides to take the risk, their journey becomes more and more dangerous, until they face a choice that could mean the family will be separated forever. Following alternating timelines and a pair of unforgettable heroines coming of age in perilous times, The Map of Salt and Stars is the epic story of one girl telling herself the legend of another and learning that, if you listen to your own voice, some things can never be lost.
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