April 19, 2010

Novel chronicles Palestinian refugee family

Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa, reviewed by Maureen Corrigan, Philadelphia Inquirer, April 18, 2010:
Its "off-road" publishing history alone signals that Mornings in Jenin is a debut novel that generates fierce responses.

Susan Abulhawa's tale of four generations of a Palestinian family exiled to the Jenin refugee camp originally was printed in hardcover in 2002 under a more inflammatory title: The Scar of David. The book's small-press publisher went out of business shortly thereafter, but it was rescued from pulping by Bloomsbury Press, which has recently brought out the retitled novel as a paperback original. . . . [continued]