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Book

The hollow half : a memoir of bodies and borders

Call Number

  • 921 A995 (CEN, OSH)

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Publication Information

New York : Catapult, [2025]

Physical Description

386 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

"You were dead, Sarah, you were dead." In October 2019, Sarah Aziza, daughter and granddaughter of Gazan refugees, is narrowly saved after being hospitalized for an eating disorder. The doctors revive her body, but it is no simple thing to return to the land of the living. Aziza's crisis is a rupture that brings both her ancestral and personal past into vivid presence. The hauntings begin in the hospital cafeteria, when a mysterious incident summons the familiar voice of her deceased Palestinian grandmother. In the months following, as she responds to a series of ghostly dreams, Aziza unearths family secrets that reveal the ways her own trauma and anorexia echo generations of violent Palestinian displacement and erasure--and how her fight to recover builds on a century of defiant survival and love. As she moves towards this legacy, Aziza learns to resist the forces of colonization, denial, and patriarchy both within and outside her."--Amazon.

Notes

Text mainly in English with some Arabic.

Contents

  • Translator's note
  • Overture
  • Part I: Silence. Part II: Language. Ghourba
  • Vision
  • Nakba
  • Remember/Invoke
  • Resistance
  • Diwan
  • Acknowledgments.

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