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A country between, making a home where both sides of Jerusalem collide, Stephanie Saldaña

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A country between

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Stephanie Saldaña

making a home where both sides of Jerusalem collide

When American writer Stephanie Saldaña finds herself in an empty house at the beginning of Nablus Road, the dividing line between East and West Jerusalem, she is a new wife trying to navigate a fragile terrain, both within her marriage and throughout the country in which she has chosen to live. Pregnant with her first child, Stephanie struggles to protect her family, their faith, and herself from the cracks of Middle Eastern conflict that threaten to shatter the world around her. But as her due date approaches, she must reconcile herself with her choice to bring a child into a dangerous world. Determined to piece together life from the brokenness, she sets out to uncover small instances of beauty to balance the delicate coexistence between love, motherhood, and a country so often at war. In an urban valley in Jerusalem, A Country Between captures the fragile ecosystem of the Middle East and the difficult first years of motherhood in the midst of a conflict-torn city. What unfolds is a celebration of faith, language, family, and love that fills the space between what was shattered, leaving us whole once more

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Author's Note; Part One: In Which an Angel Appears on a Train; The Angel; A Monastery in November; France; A Game of Chess; Passing Storms; Jerusalem; Part Two: Nablus Road; The Valley; House Hunting; The Bishop Sent Us; The Opening and Closing of Windows; Borders; Spies; Abu Hossam; The Man of the House; Palimpsest; Seasons; Invisible; Bird Country; Friday; Part Three: The Child in Bethlehem; A Test; Joyeux Noël; Mary of the Shattered Ones; Umm Yusuf; Linea Nigra; Ze Christmas Tree; The Hopes and Fears; A World Made New; Part Four: The Magical HoursThe Things of This WorldMemory; The Language of Childhood; Lessons; War; Hospitals; What Passes and What Remains; Part Five: Sirens in Jerusalem; Afternoons in Eternity; An Unexpected Battle; Sebastian; The Piano; Knocking on a Door; The Love Stairs; The Invisible Man; Sirènes; The Great Tree; Afterword; Acknowledgments; Reading Group Guide; A Conversation with the Author; About the Author; Back Cover

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