A Map of Salt and Stars

Nour is an eleven-year-old girl whose father has just died. Her mother, a cartographer who draws maps by hand, decides to move from New York to Syria, her homeland, with her daughters. But the city of Homs ceases to be their home when the bombings begin, and the family has no choice but to flee from this place where life is extinguished. The search for a safe place becomes a journey that takes them through seven countries. Finding a home is a more distant dream every day, but also a hope to cling to.

Nine hundred years ago, Rawiya, another sixteen-year-old girl, also embarks on a journey in search of fortune that takes her across the world with a cartographer determined to create a world map. Jennifer Zenab Maccani intertwines these two lives in a book as delicate as it is moving, which reminds us of the need to appreciate the details of life: the aromas and colors of home, the art of storytelling, and the unbreakable bonds of family.

Nour is an eleven-year-old girl whose father has just died. Her mother, a cartographer who draws maps by hand, decides to move from New York to Syria, her homeland, with her daughters. But the city of Homs ceases to be their home when the bombings begin, and the family has no choice but to flee from this place where life is extinguished. The search for a safe place becomes a journey that takes them through seven countries. Finding a home is a more distant dream every day, but also a hope to cling to.

Nine hundred years ago, Rawiya, another sixteen-year-old girl, also embarks on a journey in search of fortune that takes her across the world with a cartographer determined to create a world map. Jennifer Zenab Maccani intertwines these two lives in a book as delicate as it is moving, which reminds us of the need to appreciate the details of life: the aromas and colors of home, the art of storytelling, and the unbreakable bonds of family.