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Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea

The Map of Salt and Stars Bookseller Recommended who used her Gold RushThis rich, moving, and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what The Kite Runner was to Afghanistan; the story of two girls living eight hundred years apart a modern day Syrian refugee seeking safety and a medieval adventurer apprenticed to a legendary mapmaker places today's headlines in the sweep of history, where the pain of exile and the triumph of courage echo again and again. In the summer of 2011, just after Nour loses her father to cancer, her