Sharon and my mother-in-law

Sharon and My Mother-in-Law offers a wry account of daily life in Ramallah, refreshingly different from most writing on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The book describes Suad Amiry's life in the West Bank from the early 1980s through the first decade of the new millennium. Amiry deftly evokes her neighborhood and her family's poignant history, recounting a captivating account of her attempts to live a normal life under difficult circumstances: from the impossibility of obtaining gas masks during the First Gulf War to her dog obtaining a Jerusalem passport when thousands of Palestinians could not. During the Israeli invasion of Ramallah in March 2002, her courageous ninety-two-year-old mother-in-law came to live with them, and Amiry's memoirs from that period are the core of this remarkable book about the absurdity (and agony) of life in the occupied territories.