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

By Stephanie Saldaña In this lyrical portrait of Syrian and Iraqi refugees and the belongings they carry, writer and journalist Stephanie Saldaña illuminates hope, home, and the stories we hold within us when everything else has been lost.   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 rui