![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But what she doesn’t think of is the that for a Palestinian kid to make that trip might as well be trying to the the impossible. With her partner(-in-crime) Samy by her side, Hayaat reasons that the trip is attainable as it’s just a few miles. She will travel to her grandmother’s old home across the wall that divides the West Bank to bring some soil from in front of her old house and fulfill Sitti Zeynab’s impossible wish. When Hayaat’s beloved Sitti Zeynab grows ill, Hayaat makes up her mind to do the impossible. Unfortunately there are curfews to obey and constant checkpoints to pass. Her family occupies a very small apartment and is preparing for the wedding of Hayaat’s sister Jihan. Hayaat lives in Bethlehem in the West Bank in the year, 2004. The story is about Hayaat, a Palestinian girl who was beautiful once but since an accident involving the death of her best friend, has been scarred and also really scared. Written by the acclaimed author of the YA novel Does My Head Look Big in This?, Abdel-Fattah writes on a topic that children’s book publishers and even writers avoid but she handles her subject matter with prowessand great storytelling. Read Where the Streets Had a Name by Randa Abdel-Fattah. ![]()
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