Description
Fourteen-year-old Liyana Abboud’s life changes when she leaves St. Louis with her family to live among her father’s Palestinian relatives in Jerusalem. Far from the familiar world she knows, Liyana navigates a new school, language, customs, family history, and the complicated realities of Palestinian-Israeli relations while searching for her own sense of identity. Through vivid sensory detail and deeply human characters—including her wise and spirited grandmother, Sitti—she discovers unexpected connections across cultures, generations, and faiths. Tender, lyrical, and insightful, the novel explores belonging, displacement, friendship, love, kindness, and the possibility of understanding amid division.
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mass_market
Simon Pulse
Published Jun 1, 1999
272 pages
ISBN: 9780689825231
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Details
First Published
1997
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye.