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A nonfiction account of the Israeli and Palestinian conflict in the Middle East. A Palestinian refugee returns to his home, now occupied by an Israeli woman. They find common ground despite their differences. The material was dry in spite of what should be a heart-wrenching situation. I wanted more heart and fewer hard facts.

"Each side has an ingenuity for justifying its own position." 
 
*Fun fall pic because the book was boring.?

read this awhile ago but free palestine 🇵🇸❤️

Utterly heartbreaking and impossibly beautiful work of narrative non-fiction, TheLemonTree by SandyTolan is an extraordinary, harrowing account as seen through the eyes of a Jew and an Arab in perhaps the most unstable and fragile place in the world today. To read this book is to understand, if not total but at least quiet enough, Palestine and Israel as they exist today. It stunned me how myriad of events that unfolded from 1948 up to 👇

A history of Israel and Palestine from the 1940‘s on with vignettes of the lives of Bashir and Dalia throughout. This book gave me a lot to think about. #FoodAndLit #ReadingAsia

This book was a good introduction to the conflict in the Middle East. I‘m feeling a bit burnt out over sociopolitical topics but the story made the topic more digestible.

Not book related, but the lemon tree that my kids got me for Mother‘s Day has buds and flowers! 😊

Tolan explores the Palestinian-Israeli conflict from the early 1930's to today. It's an extremely complicated issue, and he did a good job of presenting the facts and injustices from both perspectives. He tied the narrative together by looking at an Israeli family and Palestinian family, linked together because the Israeli family lived in the house the Palestinians were forced from. Very informative -- dense at times, It's a complicated story.

Wow! This was recommended to me a long time ago and I can't believe it's taken me so long to get to it. This was originally a radio documentary on NPR in 1998. So, if you are an audiobook fan, that's a shorter, but less detailed version.

My #currentread is set in the Middle East. I'm still early in the book, but it is absolutely fabulous so far!!!! #MayBookFlowers #setinthemiddleeast

Good Morning, Littens! Flipping through a couple library books to find my next read with breakfast! 🌞

#LibraryHaul

Grabbed these goodies at the library! Catching up on a few I missed the first time around that have been recommended to me. Especially looking forward to The Lemon Tree.

About halfway through this one and finding it fascinating. It's my pick for "Read a book set in the Middle East" in Book Riot's #readharder2016 challenge.