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Susan Abulhawa: Mornings in Jenin (2010, Bloomsbury) 4 stars

Forcibly removed from the ancient village of Ein Hod by the newly formed state of …

I didn’t want to read this at first

4 stars

I knew it would be harrowing; how could it not be? And didn’t have the energy to read about such deep and intractable violence. But it is a good book, the latter half in particular; about grief and motherhood and fragments of hope.