Dawn in Jenin

Palestine, 1948. In an instant, the familiar world collapses: hundreds of thousands of people are forced to leave their homes. A young mother has her baby taken away— and from that moment on, the fate of the Abulheja family is forever shattered.
Deprived of their home, they find shelter in a refugee camp in Jenin, where they try to piece their lives together from the shards of the past. Their story unfolds through the fate of Amal—a girl born in exile; her brother, who lost everything in the struggle for freedom; and a son, kidnapped in childhood and raised on the other side of the conflict—a soldier destined to become an enemy of his own blood.

«Susan has the heart of a warrior… She is one of the greatest writers of our time. Reading her books means beginning to understand not only how the truth about what is happening in Palestine and the Middle East has been distorted for decades but also confronting one’s own resistance—a fear of the truth itself.» — Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winner, author of Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart