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The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders

The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders

Aziza, Sarah

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralImmigration & RefugeesMental Health

Publisher Price: $29.00

ISBN10: 1646222431
ISBN13: 9781646222438
Publisher: Catapult
Published: Apr 22 2025
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.50 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
WINNER OF THE PALESTINE BOOK AWARD
WINNER OF THE BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK PRIZE
WINNER OF THE ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD FOR MEMOIR

A brush with death. An ancestral haunting. A century of family secrets. Sarah Aziza's searing, genre-bending memoir traces three generations of diasporic Palestinians from Gaza to the Midwest to New York City--and back

You were dead, Sarah, you were dead. In October 2019, Sarah Aziza, daughter and granddaughter of Gazan refugees, is narrowly saved after being hospitalized for an eating disorder. The doctors revive her body, but it is no simple thing to return to the land of the living. Aziza's crisis is a rupture that brings both her ancestral and personal past into vivid presence. The hauntings begin in the hospital cafeteria, when a mysterious incident summons the familiar voice of her deceased Palestinian grandmother.

In the months following, as she responds to a series of ghostly dreams, Aziza unearths family secrets that reveal the ways her own trauma and anorexia echo generations of violent Palestinian displacement and erasure--and how her fight to recover builds on a century of defiant survival and love. As she moves towards this legacy, Aziza learns to resist the forces of colonization, denial, and patriarchy both within and outside her.

Weaving timelines, languages, geographies, and genres, The Hollow Half probes the contradictions and contingencies that create nation and history. Blazing with honesty, urgency, and poetry, this stunning debut memoir is a fearless call to imagine both the self and the world anew.

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