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SUMMARY:YA - READING - Zoulfa Katouh's As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a reading\, conversation\, Q&A session\, and signing of As Long as The Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh. This event is open to the public and will be moderated by Maha @onetruedaydreamer. \nAbout the book: \nA love letter to Syria and its people\, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow is a speculative novel set amid the Syrian Revolution\, burning with the fires of hope\, love\, and possibility. Perfect for fans of The Book Thief and Salt to the Sea. \nSalama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had her parents and her big brother; she still had her home. She had a normal teenager’s life. \nNow Salama volunteers at a hospital in Homs\, helping the wounded who flood through the doors daily. Secretly\, though\, she is desperate to find a way out of her beloved country before her sister-in-law\, Layla\, gives birth. So desperate\, that she has manifested a physical embodiment of her fear in the form of her imagined companion\, Khawf\, who haunts her every move in an effort to keep her safe. \nBut even with Khawf pressing her to leave\, Salama is torn between her loyalty to her country and her conviction to survive. Salama must contend with bullets and bombs\, military assaults\, and her shifting sense of morality before she might finally breathe free. And when she crosses paths with the boy she was supposed to meet one fateful day\, she starts to doubt her resolve in leaving home at all. \nSoon\, Salama must learn to see the events around her for what they truly are—not a war\, but a revolution—and decide how she\, too\, will cry for Syria’s freedom. \nZoulfa Katouh is a Canadian with Syrian roots based in Switzerland. She is currently pursuing her master’s in Drug Sciences and finds Studio Ghibli inspiration in the mountains\, lakes\, and stars surrounding her. When she’s not talking to herself in the woodland forest\, she’s drinking iced coffee\, baking aesthetic cookies and cakes\, and telling everyone who would listen about how BTS paved the way. A dream of hers is to get Kim Nam-joon to read one of her books. As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow is her debut novel. \n \nCan’t make it to the event? Order a copy of the book here!
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/reading-zoulfa-katouhs-as-long-as-the-lemon-trees-grow/
LOCATION:Queen Books\, 914 Queen St E\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4M 1J5\, Canada
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