RaveThe HinduThis is a beautiful book, written from the heart in a style that sings to you ... Christy’s novel magnificently captures their lives in Aleppo as lovers, parents, friends and professionals with their everyday joys and regrets ... I found their voices, even in translation, stunningly authentic, with the Moroccan sounding distinctly different from the Syrian ... What Nuri tells us about bees in exquisite, but never overpowering, detail is one of the most delightful parts of the novel ... Only someone like Christy Lefteri, herself the daughter of refugees who had helped the likes of Afra and Nuri, could have written such a book.
