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The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar
5.0

“Don't forget,' he says, and Abu Sayeed looks up while he translates, holding the words back a little, 'stories ease the pain of living, not dying. People always think dying is going to hurt. But it does not. It's living that hurts us.”

I LOVED this book and her ability to weave a story and her ability to articulate internal experiences of trauma and make it accessible.