Daughter of the Homeland

About this book

Shams Barakat grows up carrying the memory of her father Qasim, killed during the Al-Aqsa Intifada, and the older family story of land and orange groves lost in Jaffa. After siege and the demolition of her home, she pursues education and becomes a university professor, using the pen and classroom to preserve memory while her relationship with Adam deepens the novel's portrait of love and resistance.