A Country Between by Stephanie Saldana was a magnificent literary piece, conveying the beauty in the human spirit, religion, land, marriage, motherhood, and history. Beautifully told in a highly insightful voice. I really enjoyed this novel. Thank you NetGalley, the author and publisher for the copy for review. All opinions are my own.

A beautiful, poignant exploration of The intersection of love, family, and place. Very vividly rendered, easy to read... I fell in love with the author and her family all over again. Real and raw, honest and authentic, and simply stunning.

I honestly could tell by the writing of the first 2 chapters that it wouldn't be a good fit for our box and had to put it down. I may read it again in the future!

A Country Between:Making a Home Where Both Sides of Jerusalem Collide by Stephanie Saldana is a fascinating read of places and experiences most of us will never have.

The author Stephanie, meets her to be husband Frédéric who was in his third and final year as a novitiate soon to become a monk at The Syrian desert monastery Deir Mar Musa, north of Damascus. I have not read the first part of this memoir, which I must do soon, to learn more about their relationship.
The Country Between, takes place when they move out of Syria and are trying to find out where they should live. They end up on Jerusalem's Nablus Road, a fascinating place with a lot of history.
The author writes beautifully, and in a very lyrical way. Her descriptions of places, the people, even the view from their window, of birds and trees created wonderful pictures in my mind, ones that even though I may never go there, I will feel that I have seen.

There are a lot of messages we can take from the authors life and perceptions of it, like hope, forgiveness, strength and the beauty of life as we see it and also in its hardships.
This is a wonderful look at a family being formed, and of families being there for one another throughout ones life, and the closeness and sacrifices they endure for one another.

Thank you NetGalley and Sourcebook (non-fiction) for the advanced readers copy in exchange for an honest review.

This is the story of several years in the life of a woman who lives in an intentionally non-intentional way. She appears driven by whim rather than purpose. The memoir begins at her arrival at a monastery in Syria, where she falls in love with a young French monk; he eventually leaves the monastery to marry her. They settle in a war-torn corner of Jerusalem, arriving at an apartment as the result of a seemingly-random sequence of events, and she decides it's imperative to have a child after a traumatic incident on the street. I can't understand her insistence on continuing to live and raise her children in a war zone when she clearly has opportunities to live elsewhere. The writing is poetic and evocative.

A poignant and thoughtful memoir of a young family living in a violent section of Jerusalem. Her writing is so descriptive that the reader is caught up in her unconventional situation and comes to know the various people she and her family live among.

Beautiful and outstanding. Stephanie Saldaña's words are very well written, they flow well and sound a bit poetic. I devour every word written in this book. This is a captivating read, I cannot describe how much I love this book. I've been to Jerusalem before but this book makes me see Jerusalem differently. Thank you for sharing this story with us all. I can't wait to read another Stephanie Saldaña's book. Thank you to Netgalley for this book.