As this riveting novel opens\, it is the s ummer of 2011 and Nour has just lost her father to cancer. To be closer to their family\, Nour's mother moves her and her 2 sisters from New York Ci ty back to her Syrian homeland. Nour tells herself a favorite story&mdash\ ;the tale of Rawiya\, a twelfth-century girl who disguised herself as a bo y in order to work as a mapmaker's apprentice.
\nBut the Syria Nour& rsquo\;s parents knew is changing\, and soon war reaches their quiet Homs neighborhood. When a shell destroys Nour&rsquo\;s house almost taking her life\, she and her family are forced to choose between staying and risking more violence or fleeing. They flee taking the same route her mapmaker an d his apprentice charted 800 years earlier. The journey which becomes more and more dangerous\, until they face a choice that could separate the fam ily forever. \;
\nFollowing alternating timelines\, a pair of un forgettable heroines come \;of age in perilous times. \;The Ma p of Salt and Stars is the story of one girl telling herself the lege nd of another and learning that if you listen to your own voice\, some thi ngs can never be lost.
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