Ishmael's Oranges
by Claire Hajaj
Hardcover- $11.91

It’s April 1948 and war hangs over Jaffa. One minute seven-year-old Salim is dreaming of taking his first harvest from the family orange ...

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  "Very disappointing" by laura_de_leon (see profile) 04/20/15

The concept had a lot of promise. In the first half of the book, it seemed possible that the book might deliver. Unfortunately, one main character descended so far in to stereotype as to be close to be caricature , and the other faded into near nothingness.

We did have a reasonable discussion about what we had wished the book would be.

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