A MAP FOR FALASTEEN A Palestinian Child's Search for Home

Lyrical music accents this poetic, poignant audiobook, which begins as Falasteen seeks to find her family's country on a map and finds she can't locate Palestine. Narrator Dalia Ramahi voices the girl's confusion, which leads her to speak to family members. Ramahi evokes her grandfather's steadiness as he draws an image-laden map, giving life to various locations. Ramahi reads the grandmother's sorrowful account of the painful history of Palestine. Tenderly yet strongly, Ramahi depicts the girl's mother as she explains that there are "places you don't need to find on a map" and that Palestine "lives in you and me." Ramahi weaves cultural elements gracefully into her narration and sensitively expresses the longing, hope, and strength that give Falasteen a sense of identity. S.W. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine [Published: JANUARY 2025]