Description
This warm, perceptive collection of essays reflects on travel, family, cultural identity, writing, and the small encounters that connect people across borders. Drawing on a life shaped by Palestinian-American heritage, Texas, Jerusalem, and journeys around the world, it finds meaning in ordinary places, conversations, and acts of attention. With characteristic generosity, humor, and lyrical insight, the essays explore belonging, translation, memory, prejudice, and the universal human search for home.
Available Editions
paperback
University of South Carolina Press
Published Jan 1, 1996
253 pages
ISBN: 9781570030826
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Details
First Published
1996
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Never in a Hurry by Naomi Shihab Nye.
War/Trauma
Racism/Discrimination
Death/Grief