A thousand splendid suns

Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries or reedom broke out in Syria. She still had her parents and her big brother; she still had her home. She was even supposed to be meeting a boy to talk about marriage. Now Salama volunteers at a hospital in Homs, helping the wounded who flood through the doors. She knows that she should be thinking about leaving, but who will help the people o her beloved country i she doesn't? With her heart so conflicted, her mind has conjured a vision to spur her to action. His name is Khaw , and he haunts her nights with hallucinations o everything she has lost. But even with Khaw pressing her to leave, when she crosses paths with Kenan, the boy she was supposed to meet on that ate ul day, she starts to doubt her resolve in leaving home at all. Soon, Salama must learn to see the events around her or what they truly are-not a war, but a revolution-and decide how she, too, will cry or Syria's reedom.