Dark at the Crossing
Dark at the Crossing NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST "Transports readers into a world few Americans know" --Washington PostA timely new novel of stunning humanity and tension: a contemporary love story…
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Dark at the Crossing
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST "Transports readers into a world few Americans know" --Washington PostA timely new novel of stunning humanity and tension: a contemporary love story set on the Turkish border with Syria.Haris Abadi is a man in search of a cause. But he is robbed before he can make it, and is taken in by Amir, a charismatic Syrian refugee and former revolutionary, and Amir's wife, Daphne, a sophisticated beauty haunted by grief. An Arab American with a conflicted past, he is now in Turkey, attempting to cross into Syria and join the fight against Bashar al-Assad's regime.
Is he a true radical or simply an idealist? As it becomes clear that Daphne is also desperate to return to Syria, Haris's choices become ever more wrenching: Whose side is he really on? And will he be able to bring meaning to a life of increasing frustration and