![]() Thank you to Abu Bakr and his family for allowing their story to be shared with the world. This has probably been my favourite book of 2019 so far and I would recommend it to any Canadian. Being a Canadian reading this story really opens my eyes to the good Canada is doing but how much more we should be doing to help each of these families. ![]() Unable to communicate with people here Abu Bakr and his family struggle to find their place. Homes is the remarkable true story of how a young boy emerged from a war zone with a passion for sharing his story and telling the world what is truly happening. He didn’t always understand what was going on but you were still able to see the horrors him and his family were forced to live through.įurther to that by the end you are able to see how terrifying and isolating it is to end up in a place like Canada. Having it told through a young boys eyes is so different than the stories most of us are used to reading or hearing about. This was told from Abu Bakr’s perspective who was roughly ten years old during the majority of the book. ![]() ![]() Abu Bakr, one of eight children, was ten years old when the violence began on the streets around him: car bombings, attacks on his mosque and school, firebombs late at night. They moved to Homs, in Syria just before the Syrian civil war broke out. This was an incredible account of a young refugee boy whose family flees Syria to seek refuge in Canada. In 2010, the al Rabeeah family left their home in Iraq in hope of a safer life. ![]()
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