The Book Show

The Book Show #1570 - Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue

Published August 21, 2018 at 3:00 PM EDT

Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar and book cover "The Map of Salt and Stars"

“The Map of Salt and Stars” is the debut novel by Syrian American writer Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar. It is the story of two girls living eight hundred years apart: a modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and a medieval adventurer apprenticed to a legendary mapmaker, showing the pain of exile and the triumph of courage.

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