Description: When Palestinian Christian college student Sabria lives through the little known 1948 catastrophe of her people, she learns the cost of being Arab in the tumultuous time of Israel's birth pangs. Despite enjoying both Jewish and Muslim friends, she falls in love with an American Christian supporter of Israel.
Brief description: Lloyd P. Johnson, MD, authored three novels, Living Stones, Cry of Hope and Uprooting the Olive Tree and one non-fiction book, Where's Frank, Koehler Books, 2013-16. The current effort, Nakba, historical fiction, continues his interest in the quest for a just peace in the Middle East, the product of living there on several occasions. His experience also spans periods of work overseas as surgeon and administrator, volunteering for periods of time in Kyrgyzstan of Central Asia, Ethiopia, Kenya, India and Pakistan, providing an international perspective. Johnson's surgical career includes that of flight surgeon, USAF, 28 years of surgical practice in Seattle, Clinical Professor University of Washington, fellow American College of Surgeons and past president Seattle Surgical Society. He authored 26 scientific articles. Johnson lives with his wife Marianne in Edmonds, Washington, enjoying their adult children and many grandkids.
Review Quotes:
"Lloyd Johnson creates a new way of looking at the tumult in the Holy Land. "
--SAMI AWAD, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, HOLY LAND TRUST, BETHLEHEM
"Lloyd Johnson knows what he writes, and he writes it beautifully."
--GALE FIEGE, THE DAILY HERALD
"Sabria's story encapsulates the denied and forgotten horrors of the Palestine 1948 catastrophe. Lloyd Johnson provides us with a powerful and well researched narrative that no decent person will be able to ignore. This fictional story, based on true events, will help the readers to understand, and I am quite confident also sympathize, with the Palestinian struggle for peace and justice in the holy land."
--Ilan Pappe, Ph.D., Jewish Historian, Chair in History, University of Exeter, England
"Once again Lloyd Johnson has created a beautiful and poignant parable to bring to reality the complexity and the human failings at work in the Holy Land. His approach is to lead you deeper into knowledge through story. I highly recommend this book."
--The Rt. Rev. Gregory H. Rickel, Bishop of Olympia, Washington
"Lloyd Johnson has taken significant historical events and made them come alive through a fascinating story that many will identify with as they recall their own experiences with cultural, political and relationship struggles. This beautifully descriptive narrative weaves historical facts with fictional dialogue in a way that makes these events come alive for the reader. This important book intersperses important events that have shaped the lives of Israelis and Palestinians with a fictional representation of efforts to bridge the cultural and political divides that exist in the Holy Land."
--Dr. Rod Schofield, Consultant to the Schools of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Jordan and the Holy Land