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Yasmin Dinar
Enjoyable but incredibly dense book. It felt like if you don’t have a grasp of the arabic language you’d get lost. Even though I speak arabic I felt it was hard to understand some of the words and discern between arabic and english. But the prose was, nonetheless, beautiful. There are some very memorable quotes from the book.

It is a heartwarming story spanning three generations from Palestine to the US. The characters are so rich in substance and life you end up missing them when you are forced
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Lena
Nov 16, 2012 marked it as to-read
Maddie
Apr 30, 2022 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition