#sea prayer

[bangbangwhoa]

books I’ve read in 2025 📖 no. 117

Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini

“Oh, but if they saw, my darling.

Even half of what you have.

If only they saw.

They would say kinder things, surely.”

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Sea Prayer | Author: Khaled Hosseini | Publisher: Riverhead Books (2018)

[bookofjudith]

Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer

Based on the story of Alan Kurdini, a three-year-old Syrian refugee who drowned while his family attempted to cross the Mediterranean Sea to safety.

[moonlight-fawn]

Khaled Hosseini’s books hurt in ways i don’t want to talk about

[muchadoaboutlearning]

Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini

It haunts me like the brittle silences in room stinking with the foreseeablity of grief, like the coercion of existence in bedridden life.

The lines about the mothers and daughters in the gaps of concrete, the swimming pool imagery, the precious cargo endearment will burn like an eternal fragrance of evanescent incense. The whole arc of halcyon days to days of escaping war brought me to tears.

And the artwork, goodness the artwork. I think these are watercolor illustrations or so i assume. But every page of this book is nurturing a story on its own, breathing stifling life in the attic because the art is too painful to spill the memory jar open. Ughh I know I am spewing nonsensical metaphors but i just don't know how to describe the whirring feelings within me. ~ eni

[thesoulofbooks]

"All I can do is pray. "

— Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer

[fresh-coast-reader]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge | May 16, 2020: “Anti-Oppression”

The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, And the Mountains Echoed, and Sea Prayer, by Khaled Hosseini

[riverheadbooks]

NPR's Book Concierge

Visit the #bookconcierge, NPR's guide to 2018's great reads.

For all the books you might have missed this year...

If you’re 

a) still recovering from your long weekend + want to curl up with pie and a good book

b) only bought things for yourself on Black Friday + need gift ideas

c) want to add even more to your TBR list before year-end

d) all of the above

don’t worry, because NPR has done all the work for you in this super comprehensive deep dive into the 319 Best Reads of 2018!

Included on the list are:

HOW TO INVENT EVERYTHING by Ryan North

SEA PRAYER by Khaled Hosseini

LITTLE by Edward Carey

TELL THE MACHINE GOODNIGHT by Katie Williams

BENEATH A RUTHLESS SUN by Gilbert King

THE INCENDIARIES by R.O. Kwon

THE FRIEND by Sigrid Nunez

FLORIDA by Lauren Groff

THE FEMALE PERSUASION by Meg Wolitzer

THE LINE BECOMES A RIVER by Francisco Cantu

THERE WILL BE NO MIRACLES HERE by Casey Gerald

Enjoy exploring!