As long as the lemon trees grow / Zoulfa Katouh.
Salama 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. Now 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. But 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. Soon, 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316351379 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0316351377 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 417 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York ; Little, Brown and Company, 2022.
Content descriptions
Target Audience Note: | Ages 14 & up. Little, Brown and Company. |
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Subject: | Syria > History > Civil War, 2011- > Fiction. Fear > Fiction. Survival > Fiction. Teenage girls > Fiction. Hospitals > Fiction. Imaginary companions > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. Medical fiction. |
Available copies
- 2 of 3 copies available at Kenton County.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 3 total copies.
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Covington Branch | YA KATOU Z (Text) | 33126022716132 | YA Bluegrass | On holds shelf | - |
Erlanger Branch | YA KATOU Z (Text) | 33126020203638 | YA Fiction | Available | - |
Independence Branch | YA KATOU Z (Text) | 33126020203646 | YA Fiction | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Volunteering at a hospital Syria, where she witnessed the wounded flooding through the doors, Salama manifests a physical embodiment of her fear in the form of her imagined companion and is torn between her loyalty to her country and her conviction to survive. 50,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook. - Baker & Taylor
Eighteen-year-old Salama Kassab, a pharmacy student volunteering at the hospital in Homs, is desperate to find passage on a refugee boat for herself and her pregnant best friend, but first she must learn to see the events around her for what they are--not a war, but a revolution. - Grand Central Pub
A 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.
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Now 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.Â
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But 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. Â
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Soon, Salama must learn to see the events around her for what they truly areânot a war, but a revolutionâand decide how she, too, will cry for Syriaâs freedom.