A darkly comic account of everyday life in Ramallah and different from most writings on the Palestine-Israel conflict, Sharon and My Mother-in-Law describes Suad Amiry's life in the West Bank from the early 1980s to the first decade of the new millennium. With vivid descriptions of her neighborhood and her poignant family history, Amiry creates a compelling narrative of her efforts to lead a normal life in a mad situation: from the inability to obtain a gas mask during the first Gulf War to her pet dog obtaining a Jerusalem passport when thousands of Palestinians could not. During the Israeli invasion of Ramallah in March 2002, Amiry's lively ninety-year-old mother-in-law came to stay with them, and the diary of this period forms the core of this wonderful book about the absurd (and anguished) life in the Occupied Territories.

Pages: 208, Dimensions: 13x13cm