A review by nila
Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

A pure, organic, powerful and heart-breaking story about Palestine. We follow a Palestinian family through four generations, from the idyllic life they lead in their homes, to the ill-fated day there were forced to leave everything they knew, and maintain the life of a now broken family.

Plot summary: The Abulheja family is in 1948 forcibly removed from their home into the Jenin refugee camp. The family's eldest fades from the torment of being separated from his family's home, while his son begins the family life, when falling for an Israeli soldier's gun, and his son again faces tragedy that leaves the deepest and most invisible scars in his struggle for freedom and peace and in the midst of all this is his sister, Amal. Through her, we hear stories for three decades; of love and marriage, and the bond that can never be broken, the bond between family