ninakeller 's review for:

Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family by Najla Said

informative sad fast-paced

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I have a lot of respect for Najla Said and for the contributions of her family, particularly her late, great father Edward Said. This memoir gives a very honest and vulnerable perspective of being a second generation Arab American and conflicted daughter of such an important Palestinian figure. Though I hoped to learn more about Palestine activism, it was interesting to learn about the identity struggles and reckoning with social and political dynamics that necessarily precede it.