“While we were picking a title for this quarter, we wanted to specifically choose one that focused on Muslim identities. As Nour’s family decides to take the risk, their journey becomes more and more dangerous, until they face a choice that could mean the family will be separated forever.” When a 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. In order to keep her father’s spirit alive 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.īut the Syria Nour’s parents knew is changing, and it isn’t long before the war reaches their quiet Homs neighborhood. Nour has just lost her father to cancer, and her mother moves Nour and her sisters from New York City back to Syria to be closer to their family. The story alternates between the timeline of Nour and Rawiya, a young girl who is an apprentice to a mapmaker.Īs described by the publisher: “This “beguiling” ( Seattle Times) and stunning novel begins in the summer of 2011. This quarter’s read, “The Map of Salt and Stars,” centers around the character Nour, a young Syrian girl who is living in New York City. Real Lit Reads is in collaboration with the Center for Equity and Inclusion and is a peer-based book club on campus that focuses on stories that raise awareness on a variety of topics such as anti-racism, identity and stories from the perspectives and experiences of others. Join Real Lit Reads for their Spring quarter read of “The Map of Salt and Stars” by Zeyn Joukhadar.
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