Well worth reading. A thoughtful, sensitive, intelligent man's search for his identity under the shadow of a compelling, charismatic, beloved father. The setting is the occupied territories under the control of the Israeli military authorities. The father is Palestinian Attorney from Jaffa, wHo found himself and his family in their summer home Ramallah when the fighting began in 1948 and were never allowed to return to their home. The son is a human rights attorney who is torn between his father's wish that he focus strictly on the legal business he built working in both Israel and the Palestine jurisdictions. A business he has built since his stand to forge 2 separate states in 1967 was unheeded by all parties involved. The age old struggle to become your own man is wonderfully depicted in Raj Shehadeh's beautifully written memoir.