A Hope More Powerful than the Sea Condition:Good Taken as a whole

Taken as a whole

With the bracing candor

Debunking myths and explaining everything from the real effects of caffeine to the surprising dangers of gardening

and project a strong

including one that Esther hadn't counted on: love

A Hope More Powerful than the Sea Condition:Good Taken as a wholeDoaa and her family leave war torn Syria for Egypt where the climate is becoming politically unstable and increasingly dangerous. She meets and falls in love with Bassem, a former Free Syrian Army fighter and together they decide to leave behind the hardship and harassment they face in Egypt to flee for Europe, joining the ranks of the thousands of refugees who make the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean on overcrowded and run down ships to