The Road from Raqqa av Jordan Ritter Conn

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<b>Crossing years and continents, the harrowing story of the road to reunion for two Syrian brothers who—despite a homeland at war and an ocean between them—hold fast to the bonds of family.<br><br><b>Runner-Up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize • </b>Riveting . . . a resplendent love letter to an obliterated city.”—<i>The New York Times</i><br></b><br><b>“<i>The Road from Raqqa</i> had me gripped from the first page. I couldn’t put it down.”—Christy Lefteri, author of <i>The Beekeeper of Aleppo</i></b><b><br></b><br>The Alkasem brothers, Riyad and Bashar, spend their childhood in Raqqa, the Syrian city that would later become the capital of ISIS. As a teenager in the 1980s, Riyad witnesses the devastating aftermath of the Hama massacre—an atrocity that the Hafez al-Assad regime commits upon its people. Wanting to expand his notion of government and justice, Riyad moves to the Unite