{"title":"Maya Abu Al-Hayyat","description":"Maya Abu Al-Hayyat is the author of You Can Be the Last Leaf. She is also the editor of The Book of Ramallah: A City in Short Fiction and a contributor to A Bird Is Not a Stone: An Anthology of Contemporary Palestinian Poetry. Her work has been published in The Guardian, the Irish Times, and Literary Hub. She is the director of the Palestine Writing Workshop, an institution that seeks to encourage reading in Palestinian communities through creative writing projects and storytelling with children and teachers. Abu Al-Hayyat lives in Jerusalem and works in Ramallah.","products":[{"product_id":"you-can-be-the-last-leaf-selected-poems-paperback","title":"You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Translation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the Arabic and introduced by Fady Joudah, \u003ci\u003eYou Can Be the Last Leaf\u003c\/i\u003e draws on two decades of work to present the transcendent and timely US debut of Palestinian poet Maya Abu Al-Hayyat.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eArt. Garlic. Taxis. Sleepy soldiers at checkpoints. The smell of trash on a winter street, before \"our wild rosebush, neglected \/ by the gate, \/ blooms.\" Lovers who don't return, the possibility that you yourself might not return. Making beds. Cleaning up vomit. Reading recipes. In \u003ci\u003eYou Can Be the Last Leaf, these are the ordinary and profound-sometimes tragic, sometimes dreamy, sometimes almost frivolous--moments of life under Israeli occupation.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere, private and public domains are inseparable. Desire, loss, and violence permeate the walls of the home, the borders of the mind. And yet that mind is full of its own fierce and funny voice, its own preoccupations and strangenesses. \"It matters to me,\" writes Abu Al-Hayyat, \"what you're thinking now \/ as you coerce your kids to sleep \/ in the middle of shelling\" whether it's coming up with \"plans \/ to solve the world's problems,\" plans that \"eliminate longing from stories, remove exhaustion from groans,\" or dreaming \"of a war \/ that's got no war in it,\" or proclaiming that \"I don't believe in survival.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eYou Can Be the Last Leaf\u003c\/i\u003e, Abu Al-Hayyat has created a richly textured portrait of Palestinian interiority--at once wry and romantic, worried and tenacious, and always singing itself.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378357895391,"sku":"9781571315403","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/p0SD_cTCqc9781571315403.webp?v=1789254486"},{"product_id":"no-one-knows-their-blood-type-paperback","title":"No One Knows Their Blood Type - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2025 First Translation Prize from the American Literary Translators Association\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the 2025 National Translation Award in Prose from the American Literary Translators Association \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo One Knows Their Blood Type\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel of identity, belonging, and conflicting truths--of stories, secrets, songs, rumors, and lies. On the day that her father dies, Jumana makes a discovery about her blood type. Hers could not have been inherited from her father--the father she sometimes longed for, but always despised. This extraordinary novel of Palestine centers its narrative not on the battlefield of history, but on how women live every day and the colonial context of their embodied lives. With humor and exhilarating inventiveness, it asks: why aren't questions of love, friendship, parenthood, and desire at the core of our conversations about liberty and freedom? How would this transform our ideas of resistance?","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51393156677855,"sku":"9798989708413","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/rnWtdDMiE39798989708413.webp?v=1789398370"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/maya-abu-al-hayyat.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}