"On rare occasions I read a book that reminds me of why I fell in love with storytelling in the first place. This is such a book." —Stephen KingPeter Blauner's epic Picture in the Sand is a sweeping intergenerational saga told through a grandfather's passionate letters to his grandson, passing on the story of his political rebellion in 1950s Egypt in order to save his grandson's life in a post-9/11 world.When Alex Hassan gets accepted to an Ivy League university, his middle-c