The Blue Between Sky and Water - 4th Edition by Susan Abulhawa (Paperback)

About the Book

From the internationally bestselling author of Mornings in Jenin, The Blue Between Sky and Water is the story of flawed yet profoundly courageous palestinian women, of separation and heartache, endurance and renewal.

Book Synopsis

In the small Palestinian farming village of Beit Daras, the women of the Baraka family inspire awe. Nazmiyeh is brazen and fiercely protective of her clairvoyant little sister, Mariam, with her mismatched eyes, and of their mother, Um Mahmoud, known for the fearsome djinn that sometimes possesses her. When the family is forced by the newly formed State of Israel to leave their ancestral home, only Nazmiyeh and her brother survive the long road to Gaza. Amidst the violence and fragility of the refugee camp, Nazmiyeh builds a family, navigates crises, and nurtures what remains of Beit Daras's community. But her brother continues his exile's journey to America, where, upon his death, his granddaughter Nur grows up alone, in a different kind of exile, the longing for family and roots eventually beckoning her to Gaza.

Internationally bestselling author Susan Abulhawa's powerful new novel explores the legacy of dispossession across continents and generations. With devastatingly clear-eyed vision of political and personal trauma, The Blue Between Sky and Water is the story of flawed yet profoundly courageous women, of separation and heartache, endurance and renewal.

Review Quotes

"The story Susan Abulhawa tells in this marvelous novel is hard to bear but impossible to ignore. Her vision is precise, courageous, and dazzling." - Teju Cole

"Abulhawa's prose is luminous; her control of a complex weaving of narrative voices-young and old, male and female, magical and real-is masterful." ― The Independent

"[Abulhawa] is a fine observer of female kinship ... A powerful read." ― Financial Times

"Abulhawa surprises us by continually unfolding new stories ...These are secrets we need to know, secrets that will educate us about ourselves, and Gaza. " ― The Guardian

"Fierce and powerful and deeply moving, you will want to read it again and again." ― Marxist Review

"A family saga with global reach, these stories of fortune tellers, fighters, little girls and old women, jump off the page and into the soul and reach far beyond any headline or statistic, past the head, to the heart." ― Laleh Khadivi, author of The Age of Orphans and The Walking

"Magical ... The way the story is told is haunting. It pulls you in and you want to never emerge." ― The Asian Age