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Two stories told of long journeys along the Mediterranean Sea in a lush lyrical voice. Nour is 12 years old, born and raised in NYC but recently repatriated to Syria with her mother and 2 older sisters after her father passes away. Unfortunately soon after their arrival in Syria, their home is bombed in violence overtaking Syria forcing the family to flee in search of a refuge. Their journey takes them across North Africa facing unimaginable difficulties and abuse as refugees fleeing with the cl
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Another 4.5. A wonderful book recounting two parallel journeys 900 years apart. One, of a refugee family recently returned to Homs after the death of their father. And we all know what happened in Homs. This leads to another journey to try to find safety, mirroring, more or less, the earlier journey in the book, that of Muhammed Al Idrisi, mapmaker and geographer, who completed many of the best maps of the time, for King Roger of Palermo (Sicily). While the contemporary story is completely reali
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While I listened to this as an audiobook (which may have been part of the trouble) following the duel time-lines was difficult.
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