Description: The Lives and Deaths of Jubrail Dabdoub follows the fantastical journeys of the merchants of Bethlehem, employing a magical realist style of writing to recapture the transformative impact of their travels on Palestine and the world beyond.
Review Quotes: "Using a range of sources--the nun's notebooks, parish records, interviews with descendants of the Bethlehem merchants who were active at the turn of the century, memoirs written during those years, other supplemental material to provide context, and his imagination--Norris has written an account that brings to life a town on the cusp of transformation and a population that bravely stepped into the unknown to secure their fortunes."--Ida Audeh, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs