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Every voice around her, including a hallucinated companion born of her trauma, urges her to take the dangerous, expensive route out of the country while she still can. Then she meets Kenan, a young man documenting the revolution on camera, and staying suddenly feels like it might be worth the risk.\n\nZoulfa Katouh, herself Syrian, grounds the novel in the granular, exhausting reality of life inside a city under siege: the triage decisions, the disappearing medical supplies, the constant calculus of who can still be saved. 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