These Olive Trees Binding:Hardcover the African continent

the African continent

Interspersed throughout are essays

Straus and Giroux (BYR)

catastrophe charges Orïsha's shores

because that goes against everything she believes in

These Olive Trees Binding:Hardcover the African continentThe story of a Palestinian familys ties to the land, and how one young girl finds a way to care for her home, even as she says goodbye. Its 1967 in Nablus, Palestine. Oraib loves the olive trees that grow outside the refugee camp where she lives. Each harvest, she and her mama pick the small fruits and she eagerly stomp stomp stomps on them to release their golden oil. Olives have always tied her family to the land, as Oraib learns from the stories