Sun Still Kisses Me: A Novel

Bestselling author susan abulhawa’s lyrical, heartrending historical fiction saga—perfect for readers curious about Palestine’s lush cultural history and tumultous present.

In this lyrical, heartrending epic, award-winning, international bestseller susan abulhawa introduces Hajje Sara, a formidable and feisty Palestinian matriarch who wakes from an accident in a refugee camp unable to remember beyond the year 1948. She is an eighteen-year-old girl trapped in the body of an elder grandmother many times over, and all she wants is to return home, to her village: Safsaf, Palestine. One warm day a year after the accident, she fools her protective daughters and sets off southward with her beloved donkey, Aziza. When her daughters realize she’s missing and her phone pings in her occupied homeland, they must call on their estranged older sister, Aminah, whose US passport makes her the only one who has a chance of navigating the hostile terrain to help save their mother.

What follows is an impossible journey of an old woman and her donkey, through rugged territory, dangerous borders, and wild animals who join her entourage. This warmhearted adventure will stay with you long after you turn the last page.