Susan Muaddi Darraj's short story collection about the inhabitants
of a Palestinian West Bank village, Tel al-Hilou, spans generations
and continents to explore ideas of memory, belonging, connection,
and, ultimately, the deepest and richest meaning of home. A Curious
Land gives voice to the experiences of Palestinians in the last
century. An excerpt from A Curious Land: When Rabab lowered the
magad and clapped-clapped to the well in her mother's too-big
slippers, the stone jar digging into her shoulder, she didn't, at
first, see the body. The morning sun glazed everything around her
-- the cement homes, the iron rails along one wall, the bars on the
windows, the stones around the well -- and made her squint her
itchy eyes. She was hungry. That was all. They'd arrived here only
last night, stopping as soon as Awwad and the men were sure the
army had moved south. It must have been the third time in just a
few weeks -- collapse the tents, load the mules, disappear into the
sands. She hoped this war would end soon, and she didn't really
care who won, as long as it ended because they hadn't eaten well in
two years. In the past few months, her mother had sold all her
gold, except for her bracelet made of liras. It was the only thing
left, and she was holding onto it, and Rabab realized, so were they
all; she imagined that, the day it was sold, when her mother's was
bare, would signal that they were at the end.
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