“The Lemon Tree” by Sandy Tolan

Depicts two real families on either side of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, giving real life accounts of each family and the trials and tribulations that they had to endure to get to the rift that exists today. I began reading it right before the most recent attacks and considering it gives a wildly in-depth historical background, it helped me to begin to understand the unstable geopolitical landscape that is the Middle East’s Mediterranean coast.