Jasmine and Fire

Name: Jasmine and Fire
Brand: Crown
SKU: 9780307885944-PRUSDTR-US
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A Bittersweet Year in Beirut

Salma Abdelnour (Author) ... more

Edition: US - Paperback / softback

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English • Age Adult - Adult

336 pages • 5.4 x 8.0 x 0.74 in

Approx. weight: 0.63 lb

Publication date: 05 Jun,2012

Barcode: 9780307885944 • Crown

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By: Salma Abdelnour

As Beirut exploded with the bombs and violence of a ruthless civil war in the ’80s, a nine-year-old Salma Abdelnour and her family fled Lebanon to start a new life in the States. Ever since then—even as she built a thriving career as a food and travel writer in New York City—Salma has had a hunch that Beirut was still her home. She kept dreaming of moving back—and finally decided to do it.

But could she resume her life in Beirut, so many years after her family moved away? Could she, or anyone for that matter, ever really go home again?

Jasmine and Fire is Salma’s poignant and humorous journey of trying to resettle in Beirut and fumbling through the new realities of life in one of the world’s most complex, legendary, ever-vibrant, ever-troubled cities. What’s more, in a year of roiling changes around the Middle East and the rise of the Arab Spring, Salma found herself in the midst of the turmoil.

As she comes to grips with all the changes in her life—a love left behind in New York and new relationships blossoming in Beirut—Salma takes comfort in some of Lebanon’s enduring traditions, particularly its extraordinary food culture. Through the sights, sounds, and flavors of a city full of beauty, tragedy, despair, and hope, Salma slowly begins to reconnect with the place she’s longed for her entire life.