Overall, this was pretty solid for such a short book looking at so much. So, while I do have criticism, I think this was good overall, especially the last chapter of the book. 

I do think it could have benefited from some additional historical context or elaboration more generally (parts had events or claims briefly mentioned but not really explained or fleshed out. While some sections do this well, it made the parts without it feel more obviously like something was missing). Similarly, his writing style is descriptive and evocative, but there were definitely parts that ended up being overwritten here. 

This had some interesting insight and some sections that were very profound and beautiful. I also really liked the beginning discussion of the power of a story, as that is a key theme throughout. Choosing this book to talk about book banning was also cool, but that is the weakest chapter and could have been integrated more successfully with the other segments to get across how it connected thematically. That I think gets at some of what was missing -- while we do get some amount of discussion relating the Africa trip to the Palestine trip, there could have been more similar direct points of connection discussed for the other chapters as well. 

Still, it is great that an author like him has put a spotlight on Palestine and is also talking about some of his political development as it is happening. I am hopeful that this will lead people to looking at even more books on the topic.