It took me 15 minutes to read this but it will stay with me forever. It’s a letter from a father to his son as they are fleeing Homs. In just a few short phrases you can see the Homs the father grew up in and the war torn place his son knows and it’s heartbreaking.
The art is breathtaking too. I’m no expert but I think they are watercolor. They are striking!!
Hosseini was inspired to write this by the death of three-year-old Alan Kurdi, the Syrian refugee who drowned trying to reach saftey in Europe in 2015. We all saw his picture on magazine covers and in news reports. But what you may not know is that in just the year after Alan drowned 4.176 others died or went missing attempting the same escape.
(Finished September 18, 2018)
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