A review by bookreviewswithkb
Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

5.0

“it is the kind of love you can know only if you have felt the intense hunger that makes your body eat itself at night. the kind you know only after life shields you from falling bombs or bullies bullets passing through your body. it is the love that dives naked toward infinity’s reach. i think it is where god lives.”

reading this felt like a first hand account of the present day in Palestine. the past keeps repeating itself. how can a country, how can a people, how can a land ever heal from an atrocity that hasn’t ever stopped since it began? it would start with a ceasefire, with an end to the occupation 

Susan Abulhawa writes in a way that makes you feel such intense, desperate emotion. she weaves together such intricate stories about love and loss, about connection and understanding, about the danger of creating an enemy 

“i could live inside water’s soothing world, where screams and gunfire were not heard and death was not smelled.”

highly highly highly recommend this novel