When Stars Are Scattered

【星星綻放的光線，指引通往希望的入口】

奧馬爾和他的弟弟哈桑大部分時間都在肯亞的難民營度過。生活艱難、食物不足、醫療資源貧乏，但好想他們可以相互依靠，奧馬爾知道唯有離開求學，才能改變他們的未來，但他相依為命的弟弟該如何是好。

 在艱難困苦的環境中，親情是羈絆是生存的強心劑，本書以圖像小說呈現，並用第一人稱的方式出發，營造與讀者之間的情感共鳴，在難民營中。如何掙脫困境，互相依靠，力爭上游的勵志故事，讓此書獲得入圍國家圖書獎的肯定。

 A National Book Award Finalist, this remarkable graphic novel is about growing up in a refugee camp, as told by a former Somali refugee to the Newbery Honor-winning creator of Roller Girl.

Omar and his younger brother, Hassan, have spent most of their lives in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. Life is hard there: never enough food, achingly dull, and without access to the medical care Omar knows his nonverbal brother needs. So when Omar has the opportunity to go to school, he knows it might be a chance to change their future . . . but it would also mean leaving his brother, the only family member he has left, every day.

Heartbreak, hope, and gentle humor exist together in this graphic novel about a childhood spent waiting, and a young man who is able to create a sense of family and home in the most difficult of settings. It's an intimate, important, unforgettable look at the day-to-day life of a refugee, as told to New York Times Bestselling author/artist Victoria Jamieson by Omar Mohamed, the Somali man who lived the story.