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The Map of Salt and Stars

Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar

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Publisher
Touchstone
Date
May 1, 2018
Fiction
The story of two girls living eight hundred years apart—a modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and a medieval adventurer apprenticed to a legendary mapmaker—places today's headlines in the sweep of history, where the pain of exile and the triumph of courage echo again and again.

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Positive Tyrone Beason,
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Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar's debut novel captures the heart-wrenching human tragedy of what's happening with Syria and Syrian refugees ... Joukhadar brings an intimacy to what is one of the stories of our age, and she does so with a language that leans heavily on the poetic ... Joukhadar’s prose is like a dream, which is fitting for this pair of stories.
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Rave Biz Hyzy,
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In addition to colorful, synesthetic descriptions, Joukhadar starts some chapters with poems in the shapes of the countries Nour travels through. This imaginative yet very real look into war-torn Syria is a must.
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Positive Suzanne Joinson,
The New York Times Book Review
There’s a dreamlike feel to these scenes, which don’t induce the stomach-churning trauma of watching a house and then an entire street annihilated on a television screen. When we come across a child with a mutilated ear, we connect with the horror but can’t fully feel it. More convincing are Joukhadar’s depictions of the anxiety and stress that bedevil the family as they become refugees ... Joukhadar’s confidence and joy in storytelling comes to life in the fantastical side of the novel ... What Joukhadar does beautifully is to connect, in a vivid and urgent way, Syria and the United States ... The Map of Salt and Stars is important and timely because it shows how interconnected two supposedly opposing worlds can be.
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