“Profoundly personal as well as historically significant…Illustrates how being dispossessed and being occupied are not merely legal or political conditions.”

“Raja’s memoir is a vital history of Aziz’s overlooked achievements; but it is also a son’s love letter to his father.”

“A striking story of loss, heartbreak, and political perfidy.”

“Absolutely gripping…His masterly, remorseless selection and accumulation of detail builds an unanswerable case against Palestine’s historic and current oppressors.”

“This is a Palestinian memoir that will endure.”

“Shehadeh movingly blends the personal and political in this heartfelt take on his complex relationship with his lawyer father.”

“Ganim’s measured pace and gentle baritone reflect the audiobook’s structure as it unfolds various moments in the Shehadeh family’s history.”

“A clear-eyed, critical, and wise examination of a defining tragedy of the twentieth century—the colonization of Palestine—as refracted through the lens of the fraught relationship between two of Palestine’s leading lawyers, who happen to be father and son.”

“This personal and gripping memoir…is partly the conversation that Raja Shehadeh wishes he could have had with his murdered father.”