"Here we go!" Salah helps Beth through the window over the fire escape into his flat ( Read more... )

Salah is seated on a ragged lawn chair in the center of a crowd of seated children. His leopard print hat is slanted at a jaunty angle ( Read more... )

Solomon is not based on anyone real person, as far as I know. I can see bits of old boyfriends (so much of the French one and the Italian one), but he doesn't have the hygiene problems or cocaine addiction to really make a single person stand out. Then again, these things mostly happen by accident, so may be he is someone and I don't know it ( Read more... )

Ask Solomon anything you want.

Or, if you think you can, tell me something I don't know about him. Though, I save the right to explain how wrong you are, if you do.

:D?

Farah's family had lived in the building just across the cobble streets from his family. She used to have an older brother, Sayid. He was a great soccer player. They thought he would go on to play for the state. When Solomon was seven, her brother was killed in a bus bombing. His mother put him in his good clothes and asked him to sit with ( Read more... )

Umar had been his favorite cousin. He had only been a month older than Solomon, and that meant the world to two ten year old boys with half a dozen cousins in their late teens and twenties and then another score or so under the age of eight. He was his brother and his best friend. And that was that ( Read more... )

Long, long ago, there wasn't always a shelter ( Read more... )

They grew up together, the three of them. It was easy for two boys to play with a girl almost three years their younger when she could climb trees better than a monkey, and she had no fear jumping roof tops with the other boys ( Read more... )

His family was originally from Iran. His mother had grown up in the Old City, she and his father had met during his pilgrimage to the Dome of the Rock. His mother had been nineteen, his father twenty. They had kept in touch, and his mother had run away from home and across the border in order to marry, chancing being disowned or worse ( Read more... )

Solomon is covered in tattoos, and has at least five holes in each ear ( Read more... )