As long as the lemon trees grow

"This is an important book. I recommend it to everyone." - Elizabeth Laird, award-winning author of Welcome to Nowhere.
“Poignant and poetic” — Samira Ahmed, New York Times bestselling author of “Detention.”
“Captivatingly beautiful... indispensable” - Hoda Fahmy, author of “Hoda F, Is That You?”
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Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom began in Syria. She still had her parents and older brother; she still had her home. She was supposed to meet a young man to talk about marriage. Now, Salama volunteered at a hospital in Homs, helping the wounded arriving. She knew she should consider leaving, but who would help her beloved homeland if she didn't? With her heart aching, her mind conjured a vision that compelled her to take action. His name was fear, and it haunted her at night with hallucinations of all she had lost. But even as fear pressured her to leave, when she met Kinan, the young man she was supposed to meet that fateful day, she began to doubt her resolve to leave home at all. Soon, Salama would learn to see the events around her for what they were—not war, but revolution—and decide how she, too, would cry for Syria's freedom.