Crossing Qalandiya

I was so excited about reading this because I wanted to change my way of seeing the conflict between Israelies and Palestinians. I thought that this book will help me to do that. Well, I wasn't too wrong...

It supposed to be a exchange letters between two friends but at the beginning, I felt like they were fighting with kindness. That kind of fightings that you do with all respect you can to don't hurt the other person. However, I didn't understand why they had to question each other for things their ancestors did, and which they did not have any guilt. I've never been in their situation but I guess that if you're friend of somebody, you don't you don't ask about the past and conflicts of your countries... But then I realized that must be hard to be in their position, so I don't want to judge.

But what I did like about this story, was the fact that they try to understand each other, talking about their culture, customs and family. When I read this book, I feel like I'm watching both sides of the story, two different ways of seeing and understanding their experiences, and two friends who changed their perspective about each other.

So... Why did I put only three stars? Because I did like this book as much as it made me feel anger. In spite of it, it's a good reading -not fast or page-turned- but enjoyable.

I won this book through GoodReads and I thank to the author for providing me this copy but this fact didn't influence the review.