This is Amal's story, the story of one family's struggle and survival through over sixty years of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, carrying us from Jenin to Jerusalem, to Lebanon and the anonymity of America. But in the fleeting peacefulness of dawn, he reads to his young daughter daily, and she can feel his love for her, 'as big as the ocean and all its fishes.' In those quiet mornings, they dream together of a brighter future. Amal's mother has walled away her heart with grief, and her father labors all day. In Jenin, the adults subsist on memories, waiting to return to the homes they love. As the villagers fled that day, Amal's older brother, just a baby then, was stolen away by an Israeli soldier.

Her Palestinian family was driven from their ancestral village by the newly formed state of Israel in 1948. In the refugee camp of Jenin, Amal is born into a world of lossloss of home, country, and heritage. OL8846634W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 90.17 Pages 358 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1408809486 Urn:lcp:morningsinjeninn00abul:epub:86e00ba4-8cb7-46c4-b47b-6d558db34d98 Extramarc MIT Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier morningsinjeninn00abul Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5z61hg56 Isbn 9781608190461Ģ009047728 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Amal's is a story of love and loss, of childhood, marriage and parenthood, and finally the need to share her history with her daughter, to preserve the greatest love she has.'-BOOK JACKETĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:14:48 Boxid IA138901 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st U.S.

Amal's own dramatic story threads its way through six decades of Palestinian-Israeli tension, eventually taking her into exile in Pennsylvania in America.

Through Amal, the bright granddaughter of the patriarch, we witness the stories of her brothers: one, a stolen boy who becomes an Israeli soldier the other who in sacrificing everything for the Palestinian cause will become his enemy. The Abulheja family are forcibly removed from their ancestral home in Ein Hod and sent to live in a refugee camp in Jenin. As they move through the trees the green fruits drop onto the orchard floor the ancient cycle of the seasons providing another bountiful harvest.' '1948. In the small village of Ein Hod a father leads a procession of his family and workers through the olive groves. Previously published in 2006 under title: The scar of David

Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa