A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea

Name: A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Melissa Fleming
ISBN: 9781250105998

Melissa Fleming • 2017

Devastation Rating

Existential Dread

refugee Syria Mediterranean survival

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Fleming reconstructs Doaa's journey from Syria through Egypt to a sinking boat in the Mediterranean. Doaa held two toddlers above water for days. One survived. The detail is precise and devastating — the specific weight of a child in salt water, the specific sound of drowning.

Appears In

► Refugee Stories — Displacement, Survival, and the Myth of Home ► Deportation and Borders — The Violence of the Line ► Exile and Displacement — The Country You Carry Inside You

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