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The Hollow Half

The Hollow HalfBy: Sarah Aziza

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Product Code: 9781646223251

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Weight .404 kg
Dimensions 20.9 × 2.9 × 14.1 cm

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"You were dead, Sarah, you were dead." In October 2019 Sarah Aziza, daughter and granddaughter of Gazan refugees, is narrowly saved after being hospitalized for an eating disorder. The doctors revive her body, but it is no simple thing to return to the land of the living. Aziza's crisis is a rupture that brings both her ancestral and personal past into vivid presence. The hauntings begin in the hospital cafeteria, when a mysterious incident summons the familiar voice of her deceased Palestinian grandmother. In the months following, as she responds to a series of ghostly dreams, Aziza unearths family secrets that reveal the ways her own trauma and anorexia echo generations of violent Palestinian displacement and erasure - and how her fight to recover builds on a century of defiant survival and love. As she moves toward this legacy, Aziza learns to resist the forces of colonization, denial and patriarchy both within and outside her. Weaving timelines, languages, and genres, The Hollow Half probes the contradictions and contingencies that create our notions of nation and history. Blazing with urgency, this "unforgettable debut" (Omar El Akkad) and "triumph" (Alexander Chee) is a "lush love letter to a place, a people, and the resilience of memory" (Kaveh Akbar). Sarah Aziza is a Palestinian American writer, translator, and artist with roots in 'Ibdis and Deir al Balah, Gaza. Her award-winning work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, the Best American Essays, the Nation and elsewhere.

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