Refugee, novel by Alan Gratz, Hardcover, Fictional Based on True Stories

Pre-owned, good condition The book revolves around three main characters from three different eras: early Nazi Germany, 1980s Cuba, and modern-day Syria. It follows Josef Landau, a German Jew in the 1930s, who tries to leave Germany to Cuba, Isabel Fernandez, a Cuban girl in 1994, who tries to escape Cuba's hunger crisis following the dissolution of the Soviet Union to the US, and Mahmoud Bishara, a Syrian youth in 2015 whose house gets destroyed by a missile and whose family decides to seek asylum in Germany. It has received positive reviews, which praised its style and historical accuracy. The novel eventually made it to The New York Times Best Seller list. Refugee is a high school adult novel by Alan Gratz published by Scholastic Corporation in 2017.