![]() ![]() Barakat’s pen, and the horrors of the Six-Day War speak louder than anything else. In the end, Ibtisam remembers her struggles in an occupied Palestine and draws strength from her own ability to write.įacts guide Ms. ![]() Tracing her life from just before the Six-Day War when she was three to her state as a teenager, we watch as our heroine loses shoes in raids, finds and loses a donkey as a friend, and sees her parents suffer the weight of protecting their children in an impossible time. ![]() It gives her struggles a weight, balance, and arc that wouldn’t necessarily belong in a standard series of personal facts. Barakat could have written a straight up autobiography, but somehow the memoir is just as moving and intense a portrait as anyone could ask for. I actually managed to pick up and read Ibtisam Barakat’s, "Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood," without ever realized that it was more than mere historical fiction. There aren’t many books on the Palestinian situation available for children, and fewer still that are memoirs. ![]()
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