Coming of Age, United States, Literary, Mythology & Folk Tales 

"In the summer of 2011, just after Nour loses her father to cancer, her mother moves Nour and her sisters from New York City back to Syria to be closer to their family. In order to keep her father's spirit as she adjusts to her new home, Nour tells herself their favorite story--the tale of Rawiya, a twelfth-century girl who disguised herself as a boy in order to apprentice herself to a famous mapmaker. But the Syria Nour's parents knew is changing, and it isn't long before the war reaches their quiet Homs neighborhood. When a stray shell destroys Nour's house and almost takes her life, she and her family are forced to choose: stay and risk more violence or flee across seven countries of the Middle East and North Africa in search of safety--along the very route Rawiya and her mapmaker took eight hundred years before in their quest to chart the world"--Amazon.com 

Genre/Form: History
Historical fiction
Fiction
Bildungsromans
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Joukhadar, Jennifer Zeynab.
Map of salt and stars.
New York : Touchstone, [2018]
(DLC) 2017039000
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Zeyn Joukhadar
ISBN: 9781501169038 1501169033 9781501169052 150116905X
OCLC Number: 1001251122
Notes: Maps on end caps.
Description: 360 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Contents: Syria. The earth and the fig --
Like two hands --
The lion's request --
Through the iron gate --
Feathers over the sun --
Where the camel sleeps --
Bone island --
There also is my heart --
Jordan/Egypt. Hidden heavens --
Stories you tell yourself --
The season of salt --
Sea of blood --
The weight of stones --
Libya. Sea of swords and teeth --
The green deep --
Blood and water --
The ribbon of good-bye --
Algeria/Morocco. Bare earth --
Two things at the same time --
Underneath --
Ceuta. Homecoming --
The last empty space.
Other Titles: Map of salt & stars
Responsibility: Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar.