Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood by Ibtisam Barakat

Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood

Ibtisam Barakat

208 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction young adult challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

Description

When a war ends it does not go away, my mother says.It hides inside us . . . Just forget But I do not want to do what Mother says . . . I want to remember. In this groundbreaking memoir set in Ramallah during the aftermath of the 1967 Six-Day War...

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informative 80%
emotional 60%
inspiring 40%
sad 40%
tense 40%
challenging 20%
dark 20%
reflective 20%

Pace

medium 100%

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3.79

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