Description
After the loss of her mother, Sabrin tries to renegotiate her mixed identity and understand the choices which led her mother from an oppressive childhood in a village in Tuscany to finding love and community activism in Palestine.
Crossing is a beautiful and compelling family memoir retracing the love story between Sabrin Hasbun’s Palestinian father and Italian mother, and the life of her half-Italian, half-Palestinian family from the 1960s to 2020. This is a story about overcoming grief and what it means to lose not only loved ones, but also a place in the world and a sense of belonging.
Sabrin will be joined in conversation by Lucy Popescu who is a writer, editor and arts critic with a background in human rights. Lucy is the editor of the anthology A Country to Call Home and the author of A Country of Refuge.