<i>'If we were different people, to write down these words might be to leave them behind us. But words are our artifacts, and I am seeding a trail for the journey, home.'</i><br/><br/>What does the daughter of a Nakba survivor inherit? It is not property or tangible heirlooms, nor the streets and neighbourhoods of a father's childhood and the deep roots of family who have lived in one place, Jerusalem, for generation upon generation.<br/><br/>Fixing her gaze on moments, places and objects - from the streets of Bethlehem to the Palestinian neighbourhoods of the New Jerusalem - Micaela Sahhar assembles a story of Palestinian diaspora. <i>Find Me at the Jaffa Gate</i> is a book about the gaps and blank spaces that cannot be easily recounted, but which insists on the vibrant reality of chance, fragments and memory to reclaim a place called home.<br/><br/><b>'Micaela Sahhar's</b> <b><i>Find Me at the Jaffa Gate</i></b><b> is one of the most inventive, thought-provoking and captivating chronicles of Palestinian diasporic life I've had the pleasure of reading. It is a memoir written by a poet, poetry written by a novelist, literature written by an academic - it is all these things at once, insisting with a gentle yet unwavering confidence in the power of its unique, brilliantly evocative and genre-defying voice. Sahhar's love for her family, homeland, the details and intimacies of everyday life; for language, history, archives, photographs and the treasured ephemera of a life in diaspora, shine through every line. The result is a book in which every word is deliberate, each line commands attention, each chapter is a world within a world.' - Randa Abdel-Fattah, academic and writer, author of</b> <b><i>11 Words for Love</i></b>...