![]() Ichmad is a gifted boy who works to keep his family together amid the senseless cruelty and overwhelming hardship that is everyday life under Israeli occupation. Amal is killed in the first three pages of The Almond Tree, and that heartbreak is only the first of many catastrophes to rock this young hero in his painful coming-of-age journey. ![]() As the household prepared for a holiday celebration the toddler climbed out of her crib to follow a red butterfly into their field-which Israel has designated a “Closed Area.” Ichmad guides his “baba” using a map he drew as he watched Israeli soldiers plant mines in the family’s land. We first meet 7-year-old Ichmad Hamid in 1955, as he guides his father through a field of landmines in the West Bank of Palestine to retrieve what’s left of the boy’s tiny sister Amal. ![]() Get the book here! Reviewed by Delinda C. ![]() By Michelle Cohen Corasanti, Garnet Publishing, 2012, paperback, 348 pp. ![]()
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