Description
Zoulfa Katouh's luminous, heartbreaking YA novel—set in the Syrian civil war and following a young medical student who must choose between the country she loves and the possibility of survival—is one of the most emotionally powerful and most humanly honest works of young adult literary fiction to emerge from the Syrian conflict. Written with the lyrical beauty and the genuine moral courage of a debut novelist who has found the only form adequate to the story she needs to tell, this is essential reading. A profoundly important novel.
