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How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less
Sarah Glidden
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Description for How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less
Paperback. The award-winning graphic memoir about Israel that offers more questions than answers about identity and politics Num Pages: 212 pages, Colour illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: FX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 225 x 17. Weight in Grams: 514.
Sarah Glidden is a progressive Jewish American twenty-some- thing who is both vocal and critical of Israeli politics in the Holy Land. When a debate with her mother prods her to sign up for a Birthright Israel tour, Glidden expects to find objective facts to support her strong opinions. During her two weeks in Israel, Glidden takes advantage of the opportunity to ask the people she meets about the fraught and complex issue of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but their answers only lead her to question her own ... Read more
Sarah Glidden is a progressive Jewish American twenty-some- thing who is both vocal and critical of Israeli politics in the Holy Land. When a debate with her mother prods her to sign up for a Birthright Israel tour, Glidden expects to find objective facts to support her strong opinions. During her two weeks in Israel, Glidden takes advantage of the opportunity to ask the people she meets about the fraught and complex issue of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but their answers only lead her to question her own ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Drawn and Quarterly
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9781770462533
SKU
V9781770462533
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99-98
About Sarah Glidden
Sarah Glidden is a graduate of Boston University and lives in Seattle. Her comics have appeared in the Guardian, the Nib, Ha'aretz, and the Jewish Quarterly. In 2010, Glidden shadowed journalists from the Seattle Globalist as they reported from Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria. Their interviews with refugees and internally displaced people form her second book Rolling Blackouts.
Reviews for How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less
A memoir of a trip this left-leaning Jew takes to Israel, determined to have her ideas about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict confirmed. Of course, things turn out more complicated than Glidden had imagined. So do her deceptively simple line drawingsand the thinking that informs the vivid dialogue in a graphic nonfiction novel of subtlety and understated wit.-Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly