I struggled to enjoy this because there's just so much detail, with all the relatives and their dozens or languages and all the minutiae, but there are some great, great passages in it about the birth of the nation, the violence and the souring idealism. It's worth reading for that, if you can plough through the rest. God knows there's enough propaganda about Israel, and the world needs human stories now, to remind ourselves of what's at stake and how Israel came to be.