Sarah Cypher

Daughters of Palestine

History & Biography

“Vividly empathetic, Leyla K. King brings her family’s tale of survival to life, sharing a direct, clear-eyed account of her grandmother’s displacement from Palestine. At this memoir’s urgent heart is a celebration of strength and resilience, resonant with a love of language. It follows King’s foremothers across decades and nations as they reckon with the exigencies of dispossession and the circumstances of their identity as Palestinian Christians. All who owe their existence to a journey will find something to love in these intricately braided sagas.”