The Bullet Collection Book

â??Passionate, lyrical, and deeply humane, this tale of two sisters caught in a war without end moves effortlessly through space and time . . . an astonishing first novel.â? â??Andrea BarrettMarianna watches her older sister Alaine collect the detritus of war from around Beirutâ??bullets, shrapnel, grenades, a gas mask. These objects, some taken from dead bodies, catalogue Alaineâ??s retreat into a dangerous depression. As the family struggles to endure the daily violence of the Middle East conflict, it is Marianna who becomes her older sisterâ??s keeper, watching for any signal that might trigger one of Alaineâ??s frequent, grim excavations. But once the family escapes to America, Alaineâ??s newfound contentment is as alien to Marianna as her madness once was. As Marianna longs for her beloved, war-torn home, she struggles to understand that now she is the difficult sister.In lyrical, dreamlike prose, Patricia Sarrafian Ward mines both the stunning, exotic landscape of Beirut and the pure, defiant landscape of a childâ??s heart, and shows how war leaves its indelible scars on both.Read More