Advanced Readers Edition in very good condition. Marketing letter included.
“Most people don’t cross rooms and oceans, embark on journeys with no promise of land to light on.”
Hadi and Sama are a young Syrian couple flying high on a whirlwind love, dreaming up a life in the country that brought them together. She had come to Boston years before chasing dreams of a bigger life; he’d landed there as a sponsored refugee from a bloody civil war. Now, hey are giddily awaiting the birth of their son, a boy whose native language would be freedom and belonging.
When Sama is five months pregnant, Hadi’s father dies suddenly in Jordan, the night before his visa appointment at the embassy. Hadi flies back for the funeral, promising his wife that he’ll only be gone for a few days. On the day his flight is due to arrive in Boston, Sama is waiting for him at the airport, eager to bring him back home. But as the minutes and then hours pass, she continues to wait, unaware that Hadi has been stopped at the border and detained for questioning, trapped in a timeless, nightmarish limbo.
Worlds apart, suspended between hope and disillusion as hours become days and days become weeks, Sama and Hadi yearn for a way back to each other, and to the life they’d dreamed up together. Does that life exist anymore, or was it only an illusion?
Achingly intimate yet poignantly universal, No Land to Light On is the story of a family caught up in forces beyond their control, fighting for the freedom and home they found in one another.
Read Alikes for No Land to Light On: Salt Houses by Hala Alyan; The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri; The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak; The Girls at 17 Swann Street by Yara Zgheib
Advanced Readers Edition in very good condition. Marketing letter included.
“Most people don’t cross rooms and oceans, embark on journeys with no promise of land to light on.”
Hadi and Sama are a young Syrian couple flying high on a whirlwind love, dreaming up a life in the country that brought them together. She had come to Boston years before chasing dreams of a bigger life; he’d landed there as a sponsored refugee from a bloody civil war. Now, hey are giddily awaiting the birth of their son, a boy whose native language would be freedom and belonging.
When Sama is five months pregnant, Hadi’s father dies suddenly in Jordan, the night before his visa appointment at the embassy. Hadi flies back for the funeral, promising his wife that he’ll only be gone for a few days. On the day his flight is due to arrive in Boston, Sama is waiting for him at the airport, eager to bring him back home. But as the minutes and then hours pass, she continues to wait, unaware that Hadi has been stopped at the border and detained for questioning, trapped in a timeless, nightmarish limbo.
Worlds apart, suspended between hope and disillusion as hours become days and days become weeks, Sama and Hadi yearn for a way back to each other, and to the life they’d dreamed up together. Does that life exist anymore, or was it only an illusion?
Achingly intimate yet poignantly universal, No Land to Light On is the story of a family caught up in forces beyond their control, fighting for the freedom and home they found in one another.
Read Alikes for No Land to Light On: Salt Houses by Hala Alyan; The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri; The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak; The Girls at 17 Swann Street by Yara Zgheib
ISBN 978-1-9821-9152-8
Yara Zgheib
2022
