The narrator’s philosophical asides allow readers just enough distance to balance the intimacy of the suffering witnessed along the journey while helping to place the Syrian crisis in global and historical context as part of the cycle of humanity. The narrator is Destiny, whose authoritative voice suits the tragic and dramatic turns of plot.
Abawi integrates just enough background information into the plot to make the story and characters comprehensible.
Through incredible dangers and suffering, they meet refugees and aid workers from across the globe. When life in Turkey offers little hope, Tareq’s father sends him and Susan to make the treacherous trip to Greece by water. When his home is hit by a bomb that kills most of his family in one day, Tareq is suddenly a refugee, traveling with his father and one surviving younger sister, Susan, to another Syrian town, then out of Syria to Turkey. Tareq, a young Syrian teenager, changes his daily routine as airstrikes on his city increase. When you are a refugee, success is outliving your loss.ĭestiny narrates this heartbreaking story of the consequences of war, showing the Syrian conflict as part of a long chain of struggles spanning through time.Īn award-winning author and journalist-and a refugee herself-Atia Abawi captures the hope that spurs people forward against all odds and the love that makes that hope grow.From award-winning journalist Abawi ( The Secret Sky, 2014) comes an unforgettable novel that brings readers face to face with the global refugee crisis. As they travel as refugees from Syria to Turkey to Greece, facing danger at every turn, Tareq must find the resilience and courage to complete his harrowing journey.īut while this is one family's story, it is also the timeless tale of all wars, of all tragedy, and of all strife. Tareq'sįamily knows that to continue to stay alive, they must leave.
In the wake of destruction, he's threatened by Daesh fighters and witnesses a public beheading. And those who have survived are left to figure out their uncertain future. In a country ripped apart by war, Tareq lives with his big and loving family. Narrated by Destiny, this heartbreaking - and timely - story of refugees escaping from war-torn Syria is masterfully told by a foreign news correspondent who experienced the crisis firsthand.
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