No land to light on : a novel / Yara Zgheib.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zgheib, Yara, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travel restrictions.

Refugees.

Syrians.

Newlyweds.

Syria.

United States.

Newlyweds--Fiction.

Syrians--United States--Fiction.

Refugees--Syria--Fiction.

Travel restrictions--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Love stories.

Domestic fiction.

Social problem fiction.

Physical Description:

xvii, 285 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First Atria Books hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2022.

Summary:

"Hadi and Sama are a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love, building a life in the country that brought them together. They'd met in Cambridge, Massachusetts: he, a shell-shocked refugee of a bloody civil war; she, a passionate dreamer who'd come to America years earlier in search of new horizons. Now, they giddily await 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, in Amman, the night before the embassy interview that would finally reunite Hadi with his parents and deliver them from a country in crisis. Hadi flies back to the Middle East for the funeral, promising he'll be gone only a few days. On the day his flight is due to arrive in Boston, Sama decides to surprise him at the airport, eager to scoop him up and bring him back home. She waits, and waits. There are protests at Logan airport, and Hadi never shows up. What Sama doesn't yet know is that Hadi has been stopped at the border. That he's been taken away for questioning, detained in a windowless, timeless, nightmarish limbo. She does not know about the travel ban, that his legal status in the U.S., which yesterday seemed rock solid, is now in jeopardy - and with it, the chance that he'll ever step foot on U.S. soil again. Amid the protests, Sama goes into premature labor; their son, Naseem, is born, too soon, his father nowhere to be found, the future they could almost taste wrenched from their grasp in a matter of hours. Worlds apart, suspended between hope and disillusion as hours become days become weeks, Sama and Hadi yearn for a way back to each other, and to the life they'd dreamed up together. But does that life exist anymore? Was it only ever an illusion? Achingly intimate yet poignantly universal, No Land to Light On is the story of a family caught on either side of a border, fighting for freedom and home, finding both in each other, and in the tenacious faith of creatures who take flight"-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9781982187422

1982187425

9781982187439

1982187433

OCLC:

1249711827