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Jul 31, 2019
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I carried our memoires all this way, the story of what happened to us. It was heavy on my shoulders this whole time, but I didn’t fall down.
Joukhadar uses dual story lines and two young heroines to tell this story of family, loss, perseverance, grief, love and success. Nour’s story takes place in 2011; she has returned to Syria from Manhattan with her mother and sisters, after her father’s death. But it is not the safe haven her mother expected, because war is tearing the country apart. Rawiya, ...more
Joukhadar uses dual story lines and two young heroines to tell this story of family, loss, perseverance, grief, love and success. Nour’s story takes place in 2011; she has returned to Syria from Manhattan with her mother and sisters, after her father’s death. But it is not the safe haven her mother expected, because war is tearing the country apart. Rawiya, ...more
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I really enjoyed this book and I didn’t finish the first time in part due to it being automatically returned to the library. It took me a long time to place it back in the queue, but I am so glad that I finally did. The prose is fantastic and I found the narrator’s voice so soothing. I finally had a better grasp of the story as the first time around I was more distracted. Sometimes it is all about timing.
Both stories were equally enchanting and I enjoyed the parallels between them. The quotes a ...more
Both stories were equally enchanting and I enjoyed the parallels between them. The quotes a ...more
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