About the Book: As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in
Syria. She still had her parents and her big brother; she still had her home.
She had a normal teenagers life.
Now Salama volunteers at a hospital in Homs, helping the wounded who flood
through the doors daily. Secretly, though, she is desperate to find a way out of
her beloved country before her sister-in-law, Layla, gives birth. So desperate,
that she has manifested a physical embodiment of her fear in the form of her
imagined companion, Khawf, who haunts her