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elizabeth  ·  3738 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hi I reached my 30 book goal for the summer

Would you read a graphic novel? They are pretty expensive, but if you can find it at your local library I would recommend "Jerusalem" by Guy Deslisle. It's his subjective experience of his trip to Israel but he also gives historic background on the conflict and underlines the present social issues. I like how it shows the diversity of opinions WITHIN the two groups cause the media portrays it all as "the jews" vs "the palestinians" but reading that book makes you realize it's even more complicated than you expected.

I love all his graphic novels. He also wrote one on Myanmar and South Korea but the most recent is the Jerusalem one.