Arab American Book Award Winner
2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist
2020 Athenaeum Literary Award Finalist
2020 Palestine Book Awards Winner
Longlisted for Rathbones Folio Prize

Susan Abulhawa possesses the heart of a warrior; she looks into the darkest crevices of lives, conflicts, horrendous injustices, and dares to shine light that can illuminate hidden worlds for us. --Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author

In this beautiful...urgent novel (The New York Times), Nahr, a young Palestinian woman, fights for a better life for her family as she travels as a refugee throughout the Middle East.

As Nahr sits, locked away in solitary confinement, she spends her days reflecting on the dramatic events that landed her in prison in a country she barely knows. Born in Kuwait in the seventies to Palestinian refugees, she dreamed of falling in love with the perfect man, raising children, and possibly opening her own beauty salon. Instead, the man she thinks she loves jilts her after a brief marriage, her family teeters on the brink of poverty, she's forced to prostitute herself, and the US invasion of Iraq makes her a refugee, as her parents had been. After trekking through another temporary home in Jordan, she lands in Palestine, where she finally makes a home, falls in love, and her destiny unfolds under Israeli occupation. Nahr's subversive humor and moral ambiguity will resonate with fans of My Sister, The Serial Killer, and her dark, contemporary struggle places her as the perfect sister to Carmen Maria Machado's Her Body and Other Parties.

Written with Susan Abulhawa's distinctive richly detailed, beautiful, and resonant (Publishers Weekly) prose, this powerful novel presents a searing, darkly funny, and wholly unique portrait of a Palestinian woman who refuses to be a victim.

Susan Abulhawa possesses the heart of a warrior . . . A major writer of our time, to read [her] is to begin to understand not simply the misinformation we have received for decades about what has gone on in Palestine and the Middle East, but to come to terms with our own resistance to feeling the terror of our own fear of Truth.-Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart

In the refugee camp of Jenin, Amal is born into a world of loss-of home, country, and heritage. Her Palestinian family was driven from their ancestral village by the newly formed state of Israel in 1948. As the villagers fled that day, Amal's older brother, just a baby, was stolen away by an Israeli soldier. In Jenin, the adults subsist on memories, waiting to return to the homes they love. Amal's mother has walled away her heart with grief, and her father labors all day. But in the fleeting peacefulness of dawn, he reads to his young daughter daily, and she can feel his love for her, as big as the ocean and all its fishes. On those quiet mornings, they dream together of a brighter future.

This is Amal's story, the story of one family's struggle and survival through over sixty years of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, carrying us from Jenin to Jerusalem, to Lebanon and the anonymity of America. It is a story shaped by scars and fear, but also by the transformative intimacy of marriage and the fierce protectiveness of motherhood. It is a story of faith, forgiveness, and life-sustaining love.

Mornings in Jenin is haunting and heart-wrenching, a novel of vital contemporary importance. Lending human voices to the headlines, it forces us to take a fresh look at one of the defining political conflicts of our lifetimes.

In the small Palestinian farming village of Beit Daras, the women of the Baraka family inspire awe. Nazmiyeh is brazen and fiercely protective of her clairvoyant little sister, Mariam, with her mismatched eyes, and of their mother, Um Mahmoud, known for the fearsome djinn that sometimes possesses her. When the family is forced by the newly formed State of Israel to leave their ancestral home, only Nazmiyeh and her brother survive the long road to Gaza. Amidst the violence and fragility of the refugee camp, Nazmiyeh builds a family, navigates crises, and nurtures what remains of Beit Daras's community. But her brother continues his exile's journey to America, where, upon his death, his granddaughter Nur grows up alone, in a different kind of exile, the longing for family and roots eventually beckoning her to Gaza.

Internationally bestselling author Susan Abulhawa's powerful new novel explores the legacy of dispossession across continents and generations. With devastatingly clear-eyed vision of political and personal trauma, The Blue Between Sky and Water is the story of flawed yet profoundly courageous women, of separation and heartache, endurance and renewal.

I wrote poetry before I wrote anything else, saysSusan Abulhawa, esteemed Palestinian-American author and social activist, in the introduction to her first book of poems, My Voice Sought the Wind.This new work followed her highly acclaimed novel, Mornings in Jenin, which has been translated into 32 languages since it was published in 2010.
My Voice Sought the Windrepresents five years of Abulhawa's best poems on the timeless themes of love, loss, identity, and family, brought to life through her vivid observations and intimate personal reflections. She writes from her own experience, with a style that is romantic, but tinged with disillusionment, often a bit sad and always introspective.

Entre las luces y sombras de una guerra una mujer palestina lo sacrificará todo

Acusada de pertenecer a una célula terrorista, Nahr purga una condena en aislamiento solitario mientras recuerda los dramáticos eventos que la llevaron hasta ese momento extremo. Nacida en Kuwait en los años setenta e hija de refugiados palestinos, Nahr soñaba con enamorarse del hombre perfecto, tener hijos y abrir su propio salón de belleza. Sin embargo, el hombre que creía amar la abandonó después de un breve matrimonio, su familia quedó sumida en la pobreza y ella se vio arrastrada hasta Irak, donde fue forzada a prostituirse y, tras la invasión estadounidense, terminó por convertirse en una refugiada como lo fueron sus padres. Cuando por fin consigue escapar a Palestina tras una breve estancia en Jordania, se enamora y forma un hogar, aunque su destino vuelve a dar un giro, arrebatándole, tal vez, la última oportunidad de ser feliz.
Una novela asombrosa y poética que nos presenta la mirada subversiva, salpicada de humor y ambigüedad moral, de una joven que, en su búsqueda de encontrar una vida mejor, se radicaliza poco a poco. Una lectura imperdible y emocionante sobre las muchas caras del mundo árabe, donde guerras y conflictos religiosos no dejan de generar estragos.

Es 1947 y la apacible vida de la familia Baraka en el pueblecito de Beit Daras, Palestina, se transforma cuando Um Mamdouh, la matriarca a la que todos toman por loca, comienza a comunicarse con un ser invisible. Adem s, su hija peque a, Mariam, aprende a leer y escribir con la ayuda sobrenatural de un amigo imaginario. El don de Um Mamdouh le granjea el respeto de la comunidad y la vida parece fluir dulcemente para todos. Nadie sospecha el horror que est a punto de desencadenarse: cuando las tropas sionistas atacan el pueblo, Um Mamdouh y sus hijos deben emprender el camino a Gaza, donde se establecen como refugiados. Sesenta a os despu s, Nur, una estadounidense que desciende de palestinos que huyeron tras el horror de la ocupaci n, se enamora de un m dico que trabaja en Palestina y lo sigue hasta Gaza. En su viaje recuperar la vida m gica, intensa y sensual de su pueblo y conocer a la hija de Um Mamdouh y su nieto Khaled, quien, traumatizado por un ataque israel , est sumido en un tipo de exilio distinto al de Nur, un sue o del que no puede despertar. Con ellos, encontrar el camino de regreso a sus ra ces y descubrir que los lazos familiares trascienden la distancia e incluso la muerte.

As Nahr sits, locked away in solitary confinement, she spends her days reflecting on the dramatic events that landed her in prison in a country she barely knows. Born in Kuwait in the 70s to Palestinian refugees, she dreamed of falling in love with the perfect man, raising children, and possibly opening her own beauty salon. Instead, the man she thinks she loves jilts her after a brief marriage, her family teeters on the brink of poverty, she's forced to prostitute herself, and the US invasion of Iraq makes her a refugee, as her parents had been.