Lobby Books:
Book Review: Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa
Midway through reading Mornings in Jenin, I felt the urge to ask some of my relatives to read it. Not my zealously Zionist relatives who would dismiss it as lies and one-sided Palestinian propaganda. I would have to agree with them that it is one-sided. It doesn’t claim to be anything else. It is the account of several generations of the Abulheja family dispossessed of their ancestral home in Ein Hod by the advent of the state of Israel and forced into the Jenin refugee camp.
Moira Levy - Read Moira’s whole review and a reply from the author, Susan Abulhawa, here.
New Arrival: Spilt Milk by Kopano Matlwa
Kopano Matlwa is a New South African writing phenomenon. She has just won the Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literature and her latest novel Spilt Milk is receiving rave reviews. It’s the story of two passionate people who share a shameful past and a tenuous present. Decades after a childhood love affair earns upright school principal Mohumagadi and disgraced preacher Father Bill expulsion from their communities, the two characters are brought back together under the most unlikely of circumstances.
New Arrival: McSweeney’s Quarterly No.33
This astonishing celebration of print journalism is a one-time only, Sunday-edition-sized newspaper - the San Francisco Panorama - with contributions from over 150 writers, artists and photographers including Michael Chabon, Stephen King, Chimamanda Adichie, Art Spiegelman and more.
Take a look inside here.
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