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• Evil Eye

  a Novel

  Rum, Etaf,

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  A Brooklyn woman raised in a conservative and volatile Palestinian family marries a charming entrepreneur who moves her to the suburbs and allows her to follow her dreams of an art degree, yet still feels dissatisfied with her life.

• Mother of Strangers

  Amiry, Suad,

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  Based on a true story, this novel follows the lives of a gifted 15-year-old mechanic and the 13-year-old peasant girl he hopes to marry against the backdrop of the indiscriminate bombing of Jaffa and the displacements of Palestinian…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Enter Ghost

  a Novel

  Hammad, Isabella,

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  A stage actress returns to Palestine to visit her older sister and becomes unwittingly involved with a local group who wants to put on a production of Hamlet in the West Bank using all Palestinian actors.

• My First and Only Love

  Khalīfah, Saḥar

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  A deeply poetic account of love and resistance through a young girl’s eyes by acclaimed writer, Sahar Khalifeh, called "the Virginia Woolf of Palestinian literature.

• The Arsonists' City

  Alyan, Hala, 1986-

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  The scattered members of a Middle-Eastern clan unite at an ancestral home in Beirut to change a new patriarch's decision to sell the property, igniting revelations about their family's past in Lebanon, Syria and the United States.

• The Beauty of Your Face

  a Novel

  Mustafah, Sahar,

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  Enduring the harrowing minutes of a shooting attack on her school by a radicalized assailant, a school principal and daughter of Palestinian immigrants experiences flashbacks about the bigotry she faced as a child and the disappearance of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Minor Detail

  Shiblī, ʻAdanīyah,

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  A young woman's obsession with a decades-old rape and murder in the aftermath of the Nakba leads her to uncover unsettling connections to her own life."

• You Exist Too Much

  a Novel

  Arafat, Zaina,

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  Told in vignettes that occur in American and Middle East settings, a debut novel follows the experiences of a young Palestinian-American who is marginalized for her sexual orientation before the traumas of her past drive her toward…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Against the Loveless World

  a Novel

  Abulhawa, Susan,

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  Follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radicalized while searching for a better life for her family throughout the Middle East.

• A Woman Is No Man

  a Novel

  Rum, Etaf,

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  Three generations of Palestinian-American women in contemporary Brooklyn are torn by individual desire, educational ambitions, a devastating tragedy and the strict mores of traditional Arab culture.

• Trees for the Absentees

  Bsharat, Ahlam,

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  On the brink of adulthood, Philistia embarks on a journey through her country's history - a magical journey, and one of loss and centuries of occupation.

• The Parisian

  Hammad, Isabella,

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  Studying medicine and falling in love in 1914 France, the son of a wealthy Palestinian textile merchant finds his loyalties tested by conflicts between the British government and the independence-minded nationalists of his community.

• Fractured Destinies

  a Novel

  al-Madhoun, Rabai

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  Written in four parts, each as a concerto movement, Rabai al-Madhoun's pioneering new novel explores Palestinian exile, with all its complex loyalties and identities. Broad in scope and sweeping in its history, it lays bare the tragedy of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Salt Houses

  Alyan, Hala, 1986-

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  Foreseeing blessings and troubles in the lives of her daughter and grandchildren, Salma endures hardships stemming from the Six-Day War of 1967 in Palestine before rebuilding in Kuwait, before the family is scattered by Saddam Hussein's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Time of White Horses

  Naṣr Allāh, Ibrāhīm,

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  Spanning the collapse of Ottoman rule and the British Mandate in Palestine, this is the story of three generations of a defiant family from the Palestinian village of Hadiya before 1948.

• In the Presence of Absence

  Darwīsh, Maḥmūd

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  One of the most transcendent poets of his generation, Darwish composed this remarkable elegy at the apex of his creativity, but with the full knowledge that his death was imminent.

• Mornings in Jenin

  a Novel

  Abulhawa, Susan

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  Explores how several generations of one Palestinian family cope with the loss of their land after the 1948 creation of Israel and their subsequent life in Palestine, which is often marred by war and violence.