Ramadan Ramsey
(Playaway)

Release date supplied by publisher.

Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.

One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.

Originally published by Harper Collins Publishers ℗2021

Performed by Korey Jackson.

"Ramadan Ramsey begins in 1999 with the ... teenage love story of Alicia Ramsey, a native New Orleans African American woman, and Mustafa Totah, a Syrian immigrant who works in her neighborhood at his uncle's convenience store. Through a series of familial betrayals, Mustafa returns to Syria unaware that Alicia is carrying his child. When the baby is born, Alicia names their son Ramadan--after the season of his conception--and raises him with the help of her mother, the formidable Mama Joon. But tragedy strikes when the epochal hurricane of 2005 barrels into New Orleans, shattering both the Ramsey and Totah families. Years later, when Ramadan turns twelve, he sets off to find Mustafa. It is an odyssey filled with breathtaking and brilliant adventures that takes Ramadan from the familiar world of New Orleans to Istanbul, and finally Aleppo, Syria, where he hopes to unite with the father he has never known."--,Provided by publisher.