Sara Haddad

A gem-like parable about Palestine, timely and prismatic. Nabila Yasmeen is in her eighties. She lives alone with over a hundred plants that she keeps in pots because she can't bear to put them in the ground. In June of 1948, as a six-year-old girl, she was expelled with her family from their village in Palestine. Now she carries the...

Adapted for young readers from her critically acclaimed adult novel, Sara Haddad's middle-grade story about a child's experience of the Nakba is a lyrical ode to sovereignty, freedom and homecoming. How could a new country be put inside a country that was already there? It's 1948 and Nabila Yasmeen lives a happy life in her village in Palestine. She plays...