Sabrena Swept Away

De: Karuna Riazi

Narrado por: Marlo Underwood

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This lush reimagining of the classic characters from The One Thousand and One Nights is for fans of The Last Mapmaker, Mañanaland, and Graciela in the Abyss. Sabrena’s family has always claimed they are descended from the legendary sailor Sinbad. But when the sea calls Sabrena to a whole new world, she’ll have to fight for her own story.

Sabrena’s destiny—her qadr—is strong. Or so her family has always said. After all, according to her dad, they are the descendants of the legendary Sinbad the sailor, who sailed the seven seas in The One Thousand and One Nights. But Sabrena has felt anything but strong lately. Mostly, she has felt worried. Worried about being the new girl in a school everyone else has attended since kindergarten, worried about Grandma’s memory failing and her stories getting more outlandish, worried about Mom deciding that Grandma can’t even live at home anymore. Worried about the strange—almost fantastical—things that keep happening whenever she’s around water.

And then, one day, the sea’s call will not be denied. It floods into her life and sweeps her away, to be fished out of an ocean both strange and oddly familiar. It only takes her a moment to realize that she’s in the stories spun by the legendary queen Scheherazade. Yet no one has ever heard of Sinbad, nothing seems to be going quite as it does in the tales as she knows them, and a frightening jinn is terrorizing the kingdom. Can Sabrena find the courage to claim her destiny before it’s too late?

©2024 Karuna Riazi (P)2024 HarperCollins Publishers

Magical and Heartwarming

This is the most amazing children’s story from start to finish both in realness and magical. The writing is incredible and the narrator had me entranced even from the opening credits! Her voice is so addicting and filled with the sounds of enchantments. I felt like I was listening to many different people. I highly recommend this story to both children AND adults! I’m a 45 years old woman and loved this book. It also connected with me as the daughter of a 93 years old father with dementia. I absolutely love “grandma” in this book! And how the narrator Ms. Marlo Underwood does her voice adds so much warmth to her. I can’t stop saying a line “… but wadda is wadda” (water is water). I’ve listened more than once and it just came out! Thank you for great storytelling and narratives Audible!!!