The Lemon Tree
An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

By Sandy Tolan

In 1967, Bashir Khairi, a 25-year-old Palestinian journeyed to Israel with his heart set on seeing his old house with the lemon tree he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. When Khairi found the house, Dalia Eshkenazi Landau, a 19-year-old Israeli college student, greeted him. A rare friendship blossomed and was tested over the next 35 years in ways neither one could imagine. Originally a documentary produced for NPR's Fresh Air, Sandy Tolan humanizes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, suggesting that amid bleak political reality, stories of hope and reconciliation still exist.

Hear The Lemon Tree at Spertus with a special Q&A session with producer and author Sandy Tolan as part of the Third Coast Festival, Monday May 19 at 6:30 pm.

Paperback.

Published by Bloomsbury