Mornings in Jenin
by Susan Abulhawa
A Palestinian family. Four generations of loss.
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you want to understand the Palestinian experience as a human story rather than a political position
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The Abulheja family is expelled from their village in 1948 and ends up in the Jenin refugee camp. Four generations across sixty years — displacement, occupation, Oslo, the second intifada. Abulhawa wrote this because she needed a novel that showed Palestinian life in full — not only suffering but also joy, humor, love, ordinary daily existence. The dispatch that refuses to reduce a people to their wounds while refusing to look away from who inflicted them.
Where This Book Lives
- Setting
- Palestine • Middle East
- Voice
- Written by a Palestinian author
- Themes
- displacementfamily saga
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