No Land to Light On by Yara Zgheib

Hello my lovely readers! This was a timely book that I happened to randomly pick up at the library a few weeks ago. Let's get into it.

SYNOPSIS
Hadi and Sama are a young Syrian couple flying high on a whirlwind love, dreaming up a life in the country that brought them together. She had come to Boston years before chasing dreams of a bigger life; he’d landed there as a sponsored refugee from a bloody civil war. Now, they are giddily awaiting the birth of their son, a boy whose native language would be freedom and belonging.

When Sama is five months pregnant, Hadi’s father dies suddenly in Jordan, the night before his visa appointment at the embassy. Hadi flies back for the funeral, promising his wife that he’ll only be gone for a few days. On the day his flight is due to arrive in Boston, Sama is waiting for him at the airport, eager to bring him back home. But as the minutes and then hours pass, she continues to wait, unaware that Hadi has been stopped at the border and detained for questioning, trapped in a timeless, nightmarish limbo.

Worlds apart, suspended between hope and disillusion as hours become days become weeks, Sama and Hadi yearn for a way back to each other, and to the life they’d dreamed up together. But does that life exist anymore, or was it only an illusion?

MY THOUGHTS
Wow. This book was...heartbreaking. 

Obviously, there's a lot going on in the news about deportation, refugees and immigration but what happens to the individual or the family that is going through this? 

A lot of the time, in my opinion,  society doesn't have much empathy for the struggles immigrants and refugees face unless it directly affects them. This book brings a refugee couple to life and shows you their struggles and their dreams. We don't know what will happen to Hadi and Sama and I kind of like that the ending is ambiguous, but hopeful, because that's life. That' s reality.

I could've finished this book in one sitting if I had the time. I finished it in the span of three days while at the office. This is an incredibly moving book and one that I won't soon forget.