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fromThe New Yorker
1 week agoBriefly Noted Book Reviews
Two debut novels explore displacement and memory through protagonists grappling with fractured identities and absent homes across geographical and psychological landscapes.
They are exploring the nature of comedy and standup as a response to being a Palestinian now. This documentary follows the group as they attempt to put together a national tour, with shows in Ramallah, Nablus, Haifa, Nazareth and Jerusalem. In so doing, they encounter the basic problem of struggling through roadblocks, and sheer dismay and horror at the wholesale destruction of the war between Israel and Hamas.