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From the author of The Girls at 17 Swann Street comes a masterful story of tragedy and redemption Hala Alyan author of Salt Houses written in soulsearing prose BookPage starred review about a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love on the cusp of their bright future when a travel ban rips them apart on the eve of their sons premature birth

Sama and Hadi are a young Syrian couple in love dreaming of their future in the country that brought them together Sama came to Boston years before on a prestigious Harvard scholarship Hadi 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 will be freedom and belonging

When Sama is five months pregnant Hadis father dies suddenly and Hadi decides to fly back to Jordan for the funeral He leaves America promising his wife hell be gone only for a few days On the date of his return Sama waits for him at the arrivals gate but he doesnt appear As the minutes and then hours pass she becomes increasingly alarmed unaware that Hadi has been stopped by US Customs and Border Protection detained for questioning and deported

Achingly intimate yet poignantly universal No Land to Light On is a tense moving novel about the meaning of home the risks of exile the power of nations and the power of love Kirkus Reviews