From debut novelist Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, this 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. For more on The Map of Salt and Stars and author Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar visit http://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Jennifer-Zeynab-Joukhadar/2128088191