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Homes : a refugee story / Abu Bakr Al Rabeeah with Winnie Yeung.
"Homes tells the story of Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, a young boy whose family moved from Iraq to Syria just before the start of the Syrian civil war. It recounts what it was like living in Syria during this time -- the normal things like video games, sleepovers, and family jarringly juxtaposed with car bombings, massacres, and the constant threat of what could happen next. In 2014 the family finally found safety in immigrating to Edmonton, Canada, and the book also recounts both the gratefulness and the loneliness of the family's immigration experience."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781988298306
- ISBN: 198829830X
- ISBN: 9781988298290
- ISBN: 1988298296
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (190 pages)
- Publisher: Calgary, Alberta : Freehand Books, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Intro; Abu Bakr al Rabeeah's family and friends; Where Did the Sun Go?; The Sweet Life; A New Life; Wait, Wait, Little One; Strange Lullaby; My First Massacre; And Then a Second One; Damascus; Oh, Father; The Night of Power; Winter; Thirteen; The Apprentice; If God Allows It; Damascus in a Different Light; The Last Squeeze; Buses, Airports, and Selfies; Enroute to Canada; Edmonton; Back to School; A New Language; Afterword; ENDNOTES; Abu Bakr's Acknowledgments; Winnie's Acknowledgments. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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In 2010, the al Rabeeah family left their home in Iraq in hope of a safer life. They moved to Homs, in Syria â just before the Syrian civil war broke out. Abu Bakr, one of eight children, was ten years old when the violence began on the streets around him: car bombings, attacks on his mosque and school, firebombs late at night. Homes tells of the strange juxtapositions of growing up in a war zone: horrific, unimaginable events punctuated by normalcy â soccer, cousins, video games, friends. Homes is the remarkable true story of how a young boy emerged from a war zone â and found safety in Canada â with a passion for sharing his story and telling the world what is truly happening in Syria. As told to her by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, writer Winnie Yeung has crafted a heartbreaking, hopeful, and urgently necessary book that provides a window into understanding Syria.
