As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

2022 • 416 pages

Ratings50

Average rating4.5

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Eighteen-year-old Salama Kassab, a pharmacy student volunteering at the hospital in Homs, is desperate to find passage on a refugee boat for herself and her pregnant best friend, but first she must learn to see the events around her for what they are--not a war, but a revolution.


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December 7, 2023
January 8, 2023

“Every lemon will bring forth a child, and the lemons will never die out.”

will add more to this when i stop sobbing<3 (probably not anytime soon) is it too early to say this is my favorite book of the year?

“It reminds me that as long as the lemon trees grow, hope will never die.”

January 27, 2024