A review by leavingsealevel
Miral by Rula Jebreal

3.0

This starts out terribly slowly. The first 150 pages really read like a history book, and a very dry one at that. I guess the average American/European reader (the book's target audience, I think) doesn't really know all that much about Palestine, so this is necessary. There has just got to be a better way to weave the necessary educational information into the narrative of a novel than sticking it all at the beginning.

Once all the educational bits got out of the way, Miral was a pretty engaging story. As far as the politics, it was published in 2004 and it feels kind of dated.