Review: Crossing Divides !
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 26, 2014
This is really touching and beautiful book. Carter is a newspaper reporter who goes to Syria to find the story about the conflict that is destroying the country. He is there with Jalal , Nemat and the freedom fighters. Carter has been war correspondent for a while, but this time is different. He knows is wrong to be looking at Nemat the way he wants and more in the middle of the war. Nemat and Carter have a couple of encounters but they have to be brief and extremely careful. It could cost Nemat his life if discover. Carter needs to return to the USA ... He leaves Nemat and his family behind. Carter finally realizes that he needs to confess the truth to his family. Also through his good friend , Joan , he realized he needs to go back to Syria and try to find Nemat. After Carter gets back in the country and learns the tragedy of what became of Nemat's family , things changed. Carter bargains and reality touch them both. The happiness came but not with a price ... A really high one ...