It is 1947‎,‎ and Beit Daras‎,‎ a quiet village in Palestine surrounded by olive groves‎,‎ is home to the Baraka family‎.‎ Eldest daughter Nazmiyeh looks after her widowed mother‎,‎ prone to wandering and strange outbursts‎,‎ while her brother Mamdouh tends to the village bees‎.‎ Their younger sister‎,‎ Mariam‎,‎ with her striking mismatched eyes‎,‎ spends her days talking to imaginary friends and writing‎.‎ When Israeli forces gather outside the town‎'‎s borders‎,‎ nobody suspects the terror that is about to descend‎.‎ Soon the village is burning and‎,‎ amidst smoke and ash‎,‎ the family must take the long road to Gaza‎,‎ in a walk that will test them to their limits‎.‎ Sixty years later‎,‎ Mamdouh‎'‎s granddaughter Nur is living in America‎.‎ She falls in love with a married man‎,‎ a doctor who works in Palestine‎,‎ and follows him to Gaza‎.‎ There she meets Alwan‎,‎ the mother of Khaled ‎- a boy trapped in his own body‎,‎ unable to wake up from a deep blue dream‎.‎ It is through her that Nur will at last discover the ties of kinship that transcend distance ‎- and even death‎.‎ The Blue Between Sky and Water is a story of powerful‎,‎ flawed women‎;‎ of relocation‎,‎ separation and heartache‎;‎ of renewal‎,‎ family‎,‎ endurance‎,‎ and love‎.‎Susan Abulhawa brings a raw humanity and delicate authority to the story of Palestine in this devastatingly beautiful tale‎.‎