The hollow half : a memoir of bodies and borders / Sarah Aziza.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aziza, Sarah, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anorexia--Biography.

Anorexia.

Grandmothers.

Refugees--Gaza Strip--Gaza.

Refugees.

Palestinian American women--Biography.

Palestinian American women.

Women, Palestinian Arab--Biography.

Women, Palestinian Arab.

Aziza, Sarah.

Palestine--Politics and government--1948-.

Palestine.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

386 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Catapult, [2025]

Summary:

"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."--Amazon.

Contents:

Translator's note

Overture

Part I: Silence. Part II: Language. Ghourba

Vision

Nakba

Remember/Invoke

Resistance

Diwan

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Text mainly in English with some Arabic.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781646222438

1646222431

OCLC:

1451507844

Publisher Number:

90101904874