Mornings in Jenin
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A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel that does for Palestine what The Kite Runner did for Afghanistan.
Mornings in Jenin is a multi-generational story about a Palestinian family. Forcibly removed from the olive-farming village of Ein Hod by the newly formed state of Israel in 1948, the Abulhejos are displaced to live in canvas tents in the Jenin refugee camp. We follow the Abulhejo family as they live through a half century of violent history. Amidst the loss and fear, hatred and pain, as their tents are replaced by more forebodingly permanent cinderblock huts, there is always the waiting, waiting to return to a lost home.
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I have many questions about the last 25 pages or so - the wild difference in pacing combined with historical events that had been threaded so well throughout the rest of the novel felt like a drastic shift - but this was truly an incredibly powerful story told with such lyricism. It’s hard not to imagine you’re right there while reading, especially in conjunction with the current rise in ongoing genocidal attacks against Palestinians in 2023.
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