The Lemon Tree (Young Readers' Edition) - by Sandy Tolan (Hardcover)

The Lemon Tree is a deeply personal story of two people seeking hope, transformation, and home in the aftermath of war.

Based on Sandy Tolan's extensive research and reporting, this book follows the journey of Dalia Eshkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student whose family had fled Europe following the Holocaust, and Bashir Khairi, a twenty-five-year-old refugee who had been forced to leave his home in Ramallah nineteen years earlier.

Despite their differences, they form an unlikely friendship on the stoop of the shared house where they both lived, forged in the aftermath of war and tested as political tensions ran high.

Through broad sweeps of narrative going back and forward in time, Tolan's sensitively told, eminently fair-minded narrative closes with a return to that lemon tree and its promise of reconciliation.

The Lemon Tree is a moving, well-crafted story that will experience one of the world's most stubborn conflicts firsthand and puts a very human face on a centuries-old conundrum.