WINNER OF THE FOOTNOTE X COUNTERPOINTS WRITING PRIZE


'Vivid, compassionate, captivating' Elif Shafak

'A special and original voice, one for our times' Philippe Sands

'A moving and tender story about love and identity, and a meditation on the people who make us who we are' Dina Nayeri

A beautifully and compellingly written memoir-family saga where the author retraces the love story between her Palestinian father and Italian mother, and the life of her half-Italian, half-Palestinian family from the 1960s to 2020. After the loss of her mother, she tries to renegotiate her mixed identity and understand her mother's choices from an oppressive childhood in a village in Tuscany to love and community activism in Palestine.

This is a story about grief and what it means to lose not only loved ones, but also a place in the world and a sense of belonging.