THE ISLAND OF MISSING TREES | Elif Shafak hijab who is on a mission

who is on a mission to find her leading lad

Set against the backdrop of Karachi

Mama Shamsi is off to the market

the story of two girls living eight hundred years apart—a modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and an adventurous mapmaker’s apprentice—“perfectly aligns with the cultural moment” (The Providence Journal) and “shows how interconnected two supposedly opposing worlds can be” (The New York Times Book Review)

But with her mom hard at work in a run-down sweatshop and three younger siblings to feed

THE ISLAND OF MISSING TREES | Elif Shafak hijab who is on a missionA REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK Winner of the 2022 BookTube Silver Medal in Fiction * Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction "A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and belief. Balm for our bruised times." David Mitchell, author of Utopia Avenue A rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange