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They Told Me Back Home Would Be Beautiful: A Palestinian Memoir

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This "deeply felt memoir of race and history that defies social erasures of the diasporic Palestinian experience" (The Whiting Award Judges Citation) explores Elena Dudum's transformational journey and evolving relationship to Palestine.

My father scours the web for century-old magazines about Palestine. For years, he would talk about these mysterious documents but rarely show them to anyone. "I have proof," he would say to whoever would listen, "that Palestine exists."

In her Palestinian C...