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About the Author
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Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar is a Syrian American author. Originally from New York City, Jennifer was born to a Muslim father and a Christian mother. She is a member of the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI) and of American Mensa. Her short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, The Saturday Evening Post, PANK Magazine, Gulf Stream Literary Magazine, The Normal School, Mizna, and elsewhere. She is a 2017–2020 Montalvo Arts Center Lucas Artists Program Literary Arts Fellow and an alum of both the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA) and the Tin House Summer Workshop. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Joukhadar, Jennifer Zeynab, author.
Title: The map of salt and stars / Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar.
Description: First Touchstone hardcover edition. | New York : Touchstone, [2018]
Identifiers: LCCN 2017029991 (print) | LCCN 2017039000 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501169106 (eBook) | ISBN 9781501169038 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501169052 (softcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Refugee children—Syria—Fiction. | Refugees—Syria—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3610.O67925 (ebook) | LCC PS3610.O67925 M36 2018 (print) | DDC 813/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017029991
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ISBN 978-1-5011-6910-6 (ebook)
Table of Contents
Dedication
Part I: 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
Part II: Jordan / Egypt
Hidden Heavens
Stories You Tell Yourself
The Season of Salt
Sea of Blood
The Weight of Stones
Part III: Libya
Sea of Swords and Teeth
The Green Deep
Blood and Water
The Ribbon of Good-bye
Part IV: Algeria / Morocco
Bare Earth
Two Things at the Same Time
Underneath
Part V: Ceuta
Homecoming
The Last Empty Space
Author’s Note
Acknowledgments
Reading Group Guide
About the Author
Copyright
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