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Atria Books
March 2019
On Sale: March 12, 2019
368 pages
ISBN: 150116905X
EAN: 9781501169052
Kindle: B078MDYSF5
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Fiction Family Life
This powerful and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what
The Kite Runner was to Afghanistan; the story of two
girls living eight hundred years apart—a modern-day Syrian
refugee seeking safety and an adventurous mapmaker’s
apprentice—“perfectly aligns with the cultural moment”
(The Providence Journal) and “shows how
interconnected two supposedly opposing worlds can be”
(The New York Times Book Review). This “beguiling” (Seattle Times) and stunning novel
begins in the summer of 2011. Nour has just lost her father
to cancer, and 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 alive 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 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. As Nour’s 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 “magical and heart-wrenching”
(Christian Science Monitor) 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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