The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak glassware that vulnerability

that vulnerability

has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness

rather than leave them behind

After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America

accessible introduction to war

The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak glassware that vulnerabilityTwo teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. The taverna is the only place that Kostas and Defne can meet in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic and chilli peppers, creeping honeysuckle, and in the centre, growing through a cavity in the roof, a fig tree. The fig tree witnesses their hushed, happy meetings; their silent, surreptitious departures.