I loved Palestinians Walks by Raja Shehadeh, so I was eager to read more from him. This book is just as beautiful and emotional. The details of his fathers’ landmark legal case and the ways Shehadeh came to realize their lives mirrored each other left my jaw on the floor. While the big-picture of the Israeli occupation is clear to me, many of the little details of cruelties from Israel and Jordan had escaped my attention. It was especially difficult to read about how advocating for a two-state solution destroyed his family, only for the PLO to accept that proposal at Oslo. Now it is clearly too late, as Shehadeh notes. 

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