Katouh, Zoulfa creator author. text Young adult fiction. nyu London Oxford New York Bloomsbury 2023 2024 2022 First trade paperback edition. monographic eng

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414 pages ; 21 cm "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."--Amazon. adolescent Zoulfa Katouh. Originally published in hardcover and ebook by Little, Brown and Company in September 2022. a-sy--- Pharmacy students Fiction Fear Fiction Survival Fiction Hospitals Fiction Syria History Civil War, 2011- Fiction 823.92 9781526648549 9780316351485 9781526648525 9781526648501 9781526648495 2025398523 Ayesha Abed Library CWJ 250528 20251126110440.0 45119 eng