Tolan, Sandy

"In 1967, Bashir Khairi, a twenty-five-year-old Palestinian, journeyed to Israel with the goal of seeing the beloved stone house with the lemon tree behind it that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the house he was greeted by Dalia Eshkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student, whose family left fled Europe for Israel following the Holocaust. On the stoop of their shared home, Dalia and Bashir began a rare friendship, forged in the aftermath of war and tested over the next half century in ways that neither could imagine on that summer day in 1967. Sandy Tolan brings the Israeli-Palestinian conflict down to its most human level, demonstrating that even amid the bleakest political realities there exist stories of hope and transformation"--Provided by publisher.

Explores the life and work of Ramzi Hussein Aburedwan, a child from a Palestinian refugee camp who defied an occupying army, got an education, mastered the playing of an instrument, and started a school to teach Palestinian children how to sing and play music, hopefully changing their lives in the process.

The author, who is white, describes meeting African-American baseball hero Hank Aaron in 1998 twenty-five years after writing him a letter of support during a period when Aaron was being inundated with racist hate mail.

Traces the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the parallel stories of Dalia, a Jewish woman whose family of Holocaust survivors emigrated from Bulgaria, and Bashir, a young Palestinian man who returns to see his family home after the Six-Day War of 1967.