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    A Country Between: Making a Home Where Both Sides of Jerusalem Collide
    A Country Between: Making a Home Where Both Sides of Jerusalem Collide
    A Country Between: Making a Home Where Both Sides of Jerusalem Collide
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    A Country Between: Making a Home Where Both Sides of Jerusalem Collide

    Written by Stephanie Saldana

    Narrated by Justine Eyre

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    When American writer Stephanie Saldana finds herself in an empty house at the beginning of Nablus Road, the dividing line between East and West Jerusalem, she is a new wife trying to navigate a fragile terrain, both within her marriage and throughout the country in which she has chosen to live.

    Pregnant with her first child, Stephanie struggles to protect her family, their faith, and herself from the cracks of Middle Eastern conflict that threaten to shatter the world around her. But as her due date approaches, she must reconcile herself with her choice to bring a child into a dangerous world. Determined to piece together life from the brokenness, she sets out to uncover small instances of beauty to balance the delicate coexistence between love, motherhood, and a country so often at war.

    In an urban valley in Jerusalem, A Country Between captures the fragile ecosystem of the Middle East and the difficult first years of motherhood in the midst of a conflict-torn city. What unfolds is a celebration of faith, language, family, and love that fills the space between what was shattered, leaving us whole once more.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMay 30, 2017
    ISBN9781541471887

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    • 5/5
      This book is very well written. Stephanie Saldana writes a memoir to her first child Joseph, as they are living in the middle of the Jerusalem collision.She gives incredible details of daily life--caught between the Pakistani side and the Israeli side of Jerusalem. Things are very different there than in her home state of Texas, USA.I will probably read again, if you like Middle Eastern memoirs, then this book is for you.I found it interesting how all of the worlds' religions are based right there in a very small area.
    • 4/5
      Beautiful recollections of time spent living near the Damascus Gate, outside the wall, in Jerusalem. Saldana writes it as a letter to her son, sort of a how I met your father, if that were a story of spiritual seekers. The author really brought home life in this community, both as it was occurring, and what it grew from. Fascinating.From the publishers:When young mother Stephanie Saldana finds herself in an empty house at the beginning of Nablus road―the dividing line between East and West Jerusalem―she sees more than a Middle Eastern flash point. She sees what could be home.Before her eyes, the fragile community of Jerusalem opens, and she starts to build her family to outlast the chaos. But as her son grows, so do the military checkpoints and bomb sirens, and Stephanie must learn to bridge the gap between safety and home, always questioning her choice to start her family and raise her child in a country at war.A Country Between is a celebration of faith, language, and family―and a mother's discovery of how love can fill the spaces between what was once shattered, leaving us whole once more.