Mother of Strangers, Suad Amiry | بدلة إنكليزية وبقرة يهودية, سعاد عامري

This Coffee & Books session will feature author Suad Amiry in conversation with Andrew Ross about her recently released novel, Mother of Strangers. 

Based on the true story of two Jaffa teenagers, Mother of Strangers follows the daily lives of Subhi, a fifteen-year-old mechanic, and Shams, the thirteen-year-old student he hopes to marry one day. Jaffa had always been a city welcoming to outsiders—the “Mother of Strangers”—where Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived peacefully together. In the prosperous and cosmopolitan port city, with its bustling markets, cinemas, and cafés on the hills overlooking the Mediter­ranean Sea, we meet many other unforgettable charac­ters, whose lives change forever in April 1948.

“A captivating novel about love amid warfare … a story as sobering as it is entertaining.” — The Hudson Review