{"product_id":"what-we-remember-will-be-saved-a-story-of-refugees-and-the-things-they-carry-9781506484211","title":"What We Remember Will Be Saved: A Story of Refugees and the Things They Carry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2023 Christopher Award Winner\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2024 Excellence in Religion Reporting Award Winner for Nonfiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEggplant seeds, a lullaby in a vanishing language, an embroidered dress. When people flee their homes, the things they save speak of beauty and suffering and the indomitable human spirit.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn an era of mass migration in which more than 100 million people are displaced comes this lyrical portrait of Syrian and Iraqi refugees and the belongings they carry. \u003cem\u003eWhat We Remember Will Be Saved\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of hope, home, and the stories we hold within us when everything else has been lost.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJournalist and scholar Stephanie Saldaña, who lived in Syria before the war, sets out on a journey across nine countries to meet refugees and learn what they salvaged from the ruins when they escaped. Now, in the narratives of six extraordinary women and men, from Mt. Sinjar to Aleppo to Lesvos to Amsterdam, we discover that the little things matter a great deal. Saldaña introduces us to a woman who saved her city in a dress, a musician who saved his stories in songs, and a couple who rebuilt their destroyed pharmacy even as the city around them fell apart. Together they provide a window into a religiously diverse corner of the Middle East on the edge of unraveling, and the people keeping it alive with their stories.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBorn of years of friendship and reporting, \u003cem\u003eWhat We Remember Will Be Saved\u003c\/em\u003e is a breathtaking, elegiac odyssey into the heart of the largest refugee crisis in modern history. It reminds us that refugees are storytellers and speakers of vanishing languages, and of how much history can be distilled into a piece of fabric, or eggplant seeds. What we salvage tells our story. What we remember will be saved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSaldaña, Stephanie:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStephanie Saldaña\u003c\/strong\u003e is a journalist and religion scholar from San Antonio, Texas, who has spent most of the last twenty years living in the Middle East. Saldaña studied religion at Harvard Divinity School and is the author of \u003cem\u003eA Country Between\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Bread of Angels\u003c\/em\u003e, hailed by Geraldine Brooks as \"a remarkable, wise, and lovely book.\" Her work has been published in \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAmerica\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eMagazine\u003c\/em\u003e, and she has been featured on National Public Radio. Saldaña and her family split their time between the Holy Land and France.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadleaf Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50601172697362,"sku":"9781506484211","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e3823e4c-2015-4d91-aaf6-2cb25a225442.jpg?v=1754898006","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/what-we-remember-will-be-saved-a-story-of-refugees-and-the-things-they-carry-9781506484211","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}