Amani is obsessed with a poem on airmail paper that slips out of one of her father's books. It seems to have been written by her grandmother, a refugee who arrived in Jordan during the First World War. Her Uncle Hafez, an advisor to the King of Jordan, invites her father to celebrate the king's sixtieth birthday. Her father has avoided returning to his homeland for decades, but Amani persuades him to come with her. Uncle Hafez will make their time in Jordan complicated--and dangerous--after Amani discovers a missing relative and is launched into a journey of loss, history, and, eventually, a fight for her own life. -- adapted from publisher
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