{"product_id":"map-of-salt-and-stars-hc","title":"Map Of Salt And Stars HC","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThis powerful and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Kite Runner \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ewas 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” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Providence Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e) and “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eshows how interconnected two supposedly opposing worlds can be” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis “beguiling” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSeattle Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing alternating timelines and a pair of unforgettable heroines coming of age in perilous times, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Map of Salt and Stars\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the “magical and heart-wrenching” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52045905952999,"sku":null,"price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/3397\/3991\/files\/51GGWKPHR4L.webp?v=1778194695","url":"https:\/\/friendsmvl.org\/products\/map-of-salt-and-stars-hc","provider":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}