The Other End of the Sea Glick Alison
The Other End of the Sea Glick Alison A moving love story that powerfully depicts life of Palestinians under occupation and in exileSummer, 1981. She finds them, growing in a Gaza garden near a…
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The Other End of the Sea Glick Alison
A moving love story that powerfully depicts life of Palestinians under occupation and in exileSummer, 1981. She finds them, growing in a Gaza garden near a refugee camp by the sea. Following the death of her father, Becky, an adventurous, naive young woman from the Midwest, sets out for the Middle East, in search of her Jewish roots.
As their relationship grows, she finds herself drawn into a story unlike the one she had expected to discover. There she befriends the garden's owner, a Palestinian activist who has served time in Israeli jails. The West Bank, Cairo, Yarmouk, Benghazi--before long, their romance careens across a region in flames, child in tow, struggling with old maps of family and kinship.Alison Glick's tumultuous, at times comical, heartbreaking love story battles its way to a search for purpose, for commitment to something much greater