I was very interested in the initial premise of some journalists failing to get a survivor of the Nakba to talk about his experience of the tragedy during an interview, and then reeling from the consequences. The first third or so of the book was very strong with fairly interesting characters and different perspectives on what it means to be Palestinian these days.
Unfortunately the story lost itself a bit too much in the romantic obsession of one of the least interesting characters as it made that too big of an element in the overall story for my taste, derailing the truly captivating parts too much. There is also some weak drama instigation later on that caught me off-guard as it didn't even really seem necessary.

Still, there are some good characters here and the initial premise is interesting. I was definitely curious to how it would all end and like I said, there are interesting explorations here and there about the Palestinian experience, and generally about how we talk about historic and personal trauma.