Out of It by Selma Dabbagh. “The first novel by a friend and fellow Bahrain expat, a British Palestinian woman in her early 40's. I am, of course, rather partial to the book as it was written by a friend, but I thought it read beautifully and touched on a subject that I find very interesting and terribly complicated. It is one of those novels that has enough non-fiction in it to give you a very real and personal perspective on a place, its history and its people. It is a very descriptive, sometimes humorous and often harrowing, account of the lives of three Palestinian siblings living in modern day Gaza - and follows two of those siblings as they move out of Gaza into the world (London and the Gulf).”
