Weeks pass,
to her they are nameless,
they are fading and growing light,
the warming of weather. On this day, she wakes,
and begins to walk. It's a summer of firsts for twelve-year-old Leila: her first time traveling alone, first time apart from Amma and her cousin Mona, and first time seeing her mother, a climate scientist in Norway, since war forced their family from Syria six years ago. Together,...