I should probably say something about each story, but I might give too much away. I'll just say that they are excellent, Kanafani is brilliant, and these fiction stories are a perfect way to understand what's going on now since 10/7/23. All the tragedy, resistance, loss. 

The final story is a novella. This is the story that inspired Susan Abulhawa's Mornings in Jenin, which I also recommend. The symbolism of the lost son is perfect. Kind of an inverse prodigal son. They all imagine going home as parents might imagine meeting the son they were separated from. But the actual homeland and son are irrevocably different than you left them - you can't go back - you can't erase what happened - even though it isn't fair. So how, then, does one move forward? What does that look like?