Memoir by Ghada Karmi recounting her childhood in Jerusalem, her family's displacement during the 1948 Nakba, her exile to Britain, and her adult attempts to understand and return to the Palestine of her memory. Karmi traces the transformation of her Jerusalem neighborhood, the loss of her family home, and the process of forging a Palestinian identity in diaspora, connecting intimate personal loss to the larger political history of Palestinian dispossession. Recommended for general readers and researchers seeking firsthand Palestinian memoir testimony about the experience of Jerusalem before 1948 and in the subsequent decades of exile, as Karmi's account bridges intimate personal loss with the larger story of Palestinian displacement.
