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A Country Between

Making a Home Where Both Sides of Jerusalem Collide

$15.99
Published: February 2017
SKU: 9781492639053

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Overview

"A Country Between reminds us that grief is as indispensable to joy as light is to shadow. Beautifully written, ardent and wise." —Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Secret Chord, People of the Book, and March

Moving her family to a war zone was not a simple choice, but she's determined to find hope, love, and peace amid the conflict in the Middle East.

When young mother Stephanie Saldana finds herself in an empty house at the beginning of Nablus road—the dividing line between East and West Jerusalem—she sees more than a Middle Eastern flash point. She sees what could be home.

Before her eyes, the fragile community of Jerusalem opens, and she starts to build her family to outlast the chaos. But as her son grows, so do the military checkpoints and bomb sirens, and Stephanie must learn to bridge the gap between safety and home, always questioning her choice to start her family and raise her child in a country at war.

A Country Between is a celebration of faith, language, and family—and a mother's discovery of how love can fill the spaces between what was once shattered, leaving us whole once more.

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"Saldana builds an impressive sense of genuine emotion, and she vividly explores the array of life in that seething section of Jerusalem...a serene memoir in which the author takes valuable time to regard the character of the Palestinian people and their way of life. " — Kirkus Reviews
"This fascinating book captures the reality of living in colliding worlds...Saldana's observations about the realities of marriage, motherhood, and aging...offer the sense of having had a uplifting conversation with a thoughtful soul. Rather than attempting to answer political questions about the region, Saldana shares a curious kind of hope by showing how life goes on no matter the circumstances... readers gain a deeper understanding of love and faith." " — Booklist, STARRED review
"Thoughtful, candid and achingly lovely, A Country Between celebrates the moments of beauty and truth that appear even—or especially—in broken and hard places, bringing light and healing in unexpected ways." — Shelf Awareness for Readers, STARRED review
"This candid, tenderly rendered love story begins in a Syrian monastery, where Saldana (Bread of Angels), a Texas-born journalist, falls for Frederic, a French novice monk...Saldana describes in wonderful detail how, as their family expands, they stay in a place where so little makes sense, guided solely by their hope in the future." — Publishers Weekly
"A testament to the couple's full embrace of peace and a commitment to living the lives they chose together...this book about hope in uncertain times reads especially poignantly for anyone looking darkly at the future." — Library Journal
"The writing of the book is gorgeous. There is the travel aspect of the book certainly but there is also a very personal family-oriented bend to the book. " — A Bookish Affair
"When we read or see TV reports about conflict in the Middle East, we would do well to remember that real people with real hopes and dreams are in many ways at the center of the story...there also are families like Stephanie Saldana's, whether Christian, Jewish, Muslim or something else. And this book makes those families much more understandable." — Bill's "Faith Matters" Blog
"Saldana's writing is gorgeous; it is clear she is a poet. In one short letter to Joseph, she says that on Nablus Road they "stroll[ed] through love and languages." A COUNTRY BETWEEN is such a stroll, through love, language, worlds, religions, and family life. " — Great New Books
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