As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

ISBN-13: 9780316351379 Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Publication date: 09/13/2022 Pages: 432 Sales rank: 11,059 Product dimensions: 5.80(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.50(d) Age Range: 14 - 18 Years 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.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 h