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Check for Availabilityout of stock. Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.  The Bullet Collectionby Patricia Sarrafian Ward
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:“Passionate, lyrical, and deeply humane, this tale of two sisters caught in a war without end moves effortlessly through space and time . . . an astonishing first novel.” —Andrea Barrett Marianna watches her older sister Alaine collect the detritus of war from around Beirut—bullets, shrapnel, grenades, a gas mask. These objects, some taken from dead bodies, catalogue Alaine’s retreat into a dangerous depression. As the family struggles to endure the daily violence of the Middle East conflict, it is Marianna who becomes her older sister’s keeper, watching for any signal that might trigger one of Alaine’s frequent, grim excavations. But once the family escapes to America, Alaine’s newfound contentment is as alien to Marianna as her madness once was. As Marianna longs for her beloved, war-torn home, she struggles to understand that now she is the difficult sister. In lyrical, dreamlike prose, Patricia Sarrafian Ward mines both the stunning, exotic landscape of Beirut and the pure, defiant landscape of a child’s heart, and shows how war leaves its indelible scars on both. About the AuthorPatricia Sarrafian Ward was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1969 and moved to the United States in 1987. She now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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