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Goodreads asked Susan Abulhawa:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Susan Abulhawa It started with two stories I read about a couple of kids, a boy in Gaza and a girl in the West Bank. Each of them had retreated to some highly regressed mental state due to psychological trauma from the occupation. But there was nothing physically “wrong” with them that anyone could discern.

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