The Map of Salt and Stars

This powerful and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what The Kite Runner was 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” ( The Providence Journal ) and “ shows how interconnected two supposedly opposing worlds can be” ( The New York Times Book Review ). This “beguiling” ( Seattle Times ) and stunning novel begins in the summer of 2011. Nour has