The teenage girl is also restless and curious to see the world. Rawiya is sixteen when she decides to change her widowed and impoverished mother’s life. Away from this story, the author introduces another girl who went through a similar experience 800 years prior. Throughout the journey, Nour struggles to remember how home feels like in the midst of all the challenges they all have to overcome.
The family is forced to transverse seven countries as refugees in search of a safe home. To escape the dangers in their new home, Nour, her sisters, and her mom are forced to flee from the middle east through North Africa. Before they can even settle, protests arise, and Nour’s house is hit by a shell that completely destroys it and almost takes her mother’s life. Unfortunately, Nour’s mother country is nothing like it was when she left for America.
A short while after burying her husband, Nour’s mother decides to move the family from New York back to her home in Syria. Her mother, a cartographer, known for her unique hand-painted maps, is left to care for her children alone. Nour lost her father to cancer in the summer of 2011. The Map of Salt and Stars tells the story of two young girls, Nour and Rawiya, their life journeys, families, heartbreaks, and adventures. Joukhadar has also written for several publications, including PANK Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, and The Kenyon Review. His second publication, The Thirty Names of Night, is already causing waves in the reading world, and it is clear that Joukhadar is doing what he was born to do. The New York-born author is recognized for his prose, depth, and unique stories.
This novel, published in 2018, has already been translated into six languages and earned the author several awards. Zeyn Joukhadar is a literary fiction writer best known for his debut novel The Map of Salt and Stars.
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