Christy Lefteri is the author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo. The story is about a married couple named Nuri and Afra. Nuri was a beekeeper and Afra was an artist. Living in war torn Syria they decide to emigrate to the U.K. where Nuri's cousin, also a beekeeper, now lives. Their journey is complicated and dangerous. A blast has left Afra blind. She still completes art with colored pencils. She draws by feeling the mark the pencils make on the paper. Since she is blind she cannot see which color pencil she is using so her pictures are somewhat wild. Both Nuri and Afra suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. Their mental health issues display in different ways. This story about their journey felt very real to me. The author is not an immigrant but her parents left Cyprus. She works with refugees. She really seems to know what life is like for refugees in Turkey and Greece.
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