{"id":43276,"date":"2018-02-12T10:22:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T15:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=43276"},"modified":"2018-02-12T10:27:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T15:27:12","slug":"cemetery-orange-trees-jeff-talarigo-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/cemetery-orange-trees-jeff-talarigo-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Cemetery of the Orange Trees by Jeff Talarigo [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-43263\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/12\/in-the-Cemetery-of-the-Orange-Trees-by-Jeff-Talarigo-on-BookDragon-533x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/12\/in-the-Cemetery-of-the-Orange-Trees-by-Jeff-Talarigo-on-BookDragon-533x800.jpg 533w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/12\/in-the-Cemetery-of-the-Orange-Trees-by-Jeff-Talarigo-on-BookDragon.jpg 631w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/>Jeff Talarigo, a peripatetic global citizen whose spare, exquisite fiction also tends toward the international \u2013 Japan for <em><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-pearl-diver-by-jeff-talarigo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Pearl Diver<\/a><\/em> (2004), the North Korean and Chinese border for <a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-ginseng-hunter-by-jeff-talarigo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Ginseng Hunter<\/em> <\/a>(2008) \u2013 alchemizes his time in Gaza into this affecting novel in loosely linked stories. An unnamed American finds himself welcomed into a local\u2019s home in Jabaliya, the Gaza Strip\u2019s largest refugee camp: \u201cI trust your eyes,\u201d Fayez explains as they walk down the aptly named School Street. Thus begins the American\u2019s education in the occupied Palestinian experience, through history, memories, myths, and parables shared by those who stay, and those who somehow leave.<\/p>\n<p>As children learn, \u201cIt is in the cemetery of the orange trees that we keep alive our story.\u201d So, too, the American absorbs the tales of a man whose wife births a goat, that goat\u2019s fate as witnessed by his \u201cnight guardian,\u201d a fratricidal hawk, a fatherless boy obsessed with photographs of the dead, a book-ingesting man, a birthday boy\u2019s encounter with a young lion, the Gaza Zoo\u2019s animals and the single veterinarian who cares for them. \u201cThere is so much the American does not know,\u201d Talarigo presses, adding further urgency with stinging, ruthless lessons \u2013 ironically, so gorgeously rendered \u2013 that deserve immediate empathic attention.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: modified from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/In-the-Cemetery-of-the-Orange-Trees-Jeff-Talarigo\/pid=9060459\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Fiction,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, February 1, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Talarigo, a peripatetic global citizen whose spare, exquisite fiction also tends toward the international \u2013 Japan for The Pearl Diver (2004), the North Korean and Chinese border for The Ginseng Hunter (2008) \u2013 alchemizes his time in Gaza into this affecting novel in loosely&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,60,342,6535],"tags":[6608,6668,22,10,438,11,24,7664,3476,39,64,28,173,45],"class_list":["post-43276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-fiction","category-nonethnic-specific","category-palestinian","category-repost","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-civil-rights","tag-family","tag-folklore-legend-myth","tag-friendship","tag-historical","tag-in-the-cemetery-of-the-orange-trees","tag-jeff-talarigo","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-pets-animals","tag-politics","tag-travel","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - 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