As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

"Salama lives in a city ravaged by war, where necessity promoted her from student pharmacist to emergency surgeon at her local hospital. When a recurring hallucination pressures her to flee Syria, she is torn between the hope of escape and the pain of leaving everything behind. This book looks trauma directly in the face. I was not expecting to race through it, clutching the pages, desperate to know what would happen next. It paints a brutal portrait of the horrific cost of oppression and violence and offers a testament to the concept of love prevailing even in the direst of circumstances."