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A review by zyzah
Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa
5.0
“Palestinians paid the price for the Jewish Holocaust.”
Palestine was a country I hear people reference when they talk about war but I wasn’t curious about what happened in Palestine until I read Abulhawa’s book, “The Sun Between Sky and Water” which was just as brutal as this.
I don’t know how to review this book without giving too much or too little away, but from the first page to the last, you would know Abulhawa wrote this book with so much passion and I can only imagine how emotionally and mentally difficult it must have been for her.
My main takeaway from the book is that revenge is a dirty game, a really dirty game where innocent souls pay the price.
“How does one live in a world that turns away from injustice for so long? Is this what it means to be Palestinian?”
The other takeaway is that people lied when they said, “home isn’t a place...” because home is a place too, a land, a city, a country.
Palestine was a country I hear people reference when they talk about war but I wasn’t curious about what happened in Palestine until I read Abulhawa’s book, “The Sun Between Sky and Water” which was just as brutal as this.
I don’t know how to review this book without giving too much or too little away, but from the first page to the last, you would know Abulhawa wrote this book with so much passion and I can only imagine how emotionally and mentally difficult it must have been for her.
My main takeaway from the book is that revenge is a dirty game, a really dirty game where innocent souls pay the price.
“How does one live in a world that turns away from injustice for so long? Is this what it means to be Palestinian?”
The other takeaway is that people lied when they said, “home isn’t a place...” because home is a place too, a land, a city, a country.