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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]
