What We Remember Will Be Saved

A Story of Refugees and the Things They Carry

Stephanie Saldaña

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Broadleaf Books
12 September 2023

Refugees & political asylum

2023 Christopher Award Winner

2024 Excellence in Religion Reporting Award Winner for Nonfiction

Eggplant seeds, a lullaby in a vanishing language, an embroidered dress. When people flee their homes, the things they save speak of beauty and suffering and the indomitable human spirit.

In an era of mass migration in which more than 100 million people are displaced comes this lyrical portrait of Syrian and Iraqi refugees and the belongings they carry. What We Remember Will Be Saved is a book of hope, home, and the stories we hold within us when everything else has been lost.

Journalist and scholar Stephanie Saldaña, who lived in Syria before the war, sets out on a journey across nine countries to meet refugees and learn what they salvaged from the ruins when they escaped. Now, in the narratives of six extraordinary women and men, from Mt. Sinjar to Aleppo to Lesvos to Amsterdam, we discover that the little things matter a great deal. Saldaña introduces us to a woman who saved her city in a dress, a musician who saved his stories in songs, and a couple who rebuilt their destroyed pharmacy even as the city around them fell apart. Together they provide a window into a religiously diverse corner of the Middle East on the edge of unraveling, and the people keeping it alive with their stories.

Born of years of friendship and reporting, What We Remember Will Be Saved is a breathtaking, elegiac odyssey into the heart of the largest refugee crisis in modern history. It reminds us that refugees are storytellers and speakers of vanishing languages, and of how much history can be distilled into a piece of fabric, or eggplant seeds. What we salvage tells our story. What we remember will be saved.

By: Stephanie Saldaña
Imprint: Broadleaf Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 159mm,
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9781506484211
ISBN 10: 1506484212
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 12 September 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Stephanie Saldaña is a journalist and religion scholar from San Antonio, Texas, who has spent most of the last twenty years living in the Middle East. Saldaña studied religion at Harvard Divinity School and is the author of A Country Between and The Bread of Angels, hailed by Geraldine Brooks as ""a remarkable, wise, and lovely book."" Her work has been published in The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, America Magazine, and Plough, and she has been featured on National Public Radio. Saldaña and her family split their time between Bethlehem and France.

Reviews for What We Remember Will Be Saved: A Story of Refugees and the Things They Carry

"""Throughout this compassionate book, the author demonstrates the resilience of refugees, who carry with them their precious languages, cultures, and memories. Memorable personal stories that give much-needed depth and humanity to what are otherwise merely numbers."" --Kirkus Reviews ""Stephanie Saldaña long ago proved herself a poetic and perceptive essayist. In this book, she also proves herself a courageous one. Following refugees into the darkest and most dangerous spaces of recent history, she documents journeys that are about much more than bare survival, at once wrenching and radiant."" --Geraldine Brooks, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ""Amid the ashes of war and unimaginable losses in Iraq and Syria, there is beauty, to which Stephanie Saldaña bears witness in this indelible work that should be read widely and deeply."" --Rubén Degollado, author of The Family Izquierdo ""This compassionate, fiercely humane collection of stories is exquisitely composed, an act of deepest grace. It is a compendium of precious preservation."" --Naomi Shihab Nye, poet and the Poetry Foundation's Young People's Poet Laureate of the United States, 2019-21 ""An emotional and thought-provoking book that provides an insightful, moving, and nuanced portrayal of the refugee experience. I felt each and every word. I was there!"" --Tareq Hadhad, founder and CEO of Peace by Chocolate ""Beautiful, heartbreaking, and full of lush detail of creation and recreation. A profound journey of listening, of honest witness."" --Sandy Tolan, author of the international bestseller The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East ""Saldaña's gorgeous new book reminds us of the breathtaking individuality of the men, women, and children seeking refuge around the world."" --James Martin, SJ, bestselling author of Jesus: a Pilgrimage"