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Wars, genocides and tropes aim to erase and separate. Not for Davie, a Jewish girl from New York, and Sondos, a girl in Gaza, born and raised in Palestine. When the two start exchanging messages and then emails following Davie's enchantment with Sondos's poetry collection received as a thank you for Davie's support, the two conjure a surprising friendship learning about each other's lives, and realising just how close they are despite their circumstances. Within these two polar yet concurrent realities flicker uniting emotions, personality, the power of empathy and listening, hopes and dreams in impossible times and memories as if already buried by reality yet being something to still aspire towards. A painful parallel of each author's respective experience of erasure permeates tenderly. As these two authors get to know eachother, so too do we join their embrace. Their unlikely connection transcends borders, politics, religion and nationalities with their most powerful weapon: humanity. And a love of donuts. With beautifully intricate map illustrations by Natali De Mello their journey invites you as their guest, and offers a blueprint to a new world, challenging old narratives with a new song.

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Sondos Al-Saqqa has lived through four wars and countless escalations, clashes, and military operations including the genocide in Gaza. Her first book was Aerie Tales, illustrated by the artist Ken Tanaka, with its first edition published in Japan and has been sold in many countries worldwide and translated. Her second book The Heart's Gaze, was also being released. Sondos holds a Bachelor degree of English Literature from the Islamic University. She received a monetary prize from the Islamic University after winning a Ramadan competition and another prize from the Islamic University in the ""Good Reader"" competition. She also received a monetary prize from a local blog that had announced an article writing competition on a religious topic, this competition was held during the the genocide. DNL is a writer born, raised, and still living in New York. Born to a Jewish mother and a Catholic father, Davie expressed a love for writing at school and won third place in a fiction writing competition at her local library. After debating with herself about whether to take a degree in physics or journalism, she attended undergraduate school in Washington, DC and earned a bachelor's in physics with a minor in journalism and mass communications. Following her graduation in 2022, she began graduate school in New Jersey, obtaining a master's degree in physics. She is currently a physics Ph.D. candidate. Davie has been a freelance science writer for years, publishing articles for multiple different outlets. Dear Sondos is her debut book

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