A review by jenah
Dancing Arabs by Sayed Kashua, Katherine Werchowski, Miriam Shlesinger

4.0

This one is hard to describe. Primarily, it is a coming of age story of a Palestinian kid who goes to a Jewish school and learns to hate who he is and where he comes from. His MC does remind me a lot of some of Sherman Alexie's characters, in the honest and jaded way that the MC viewed and judged himself, his family and his people. Not a very likable MC but the really good passages made up for a lot of it and the ending managed to pull the disparate parts together.