{"product_id":"beirut-fragments","title":"Beirut Fragments","description":"\u003cb\u003eA landmark memoir that stands as a testament to survival, memory, dignity, and the stubborn beauty of insisting on one's place in the world, named a 1990 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJean Said Makdisi--Palestinian writer, scholar, and sister of the late critic Edward Said--has lived in Beirut since the 1970s. First published in 1990, \u003ci\u003eBeirut Fragments\u003c\/i\u003e endures as a beautifully wrought, intimate record of civilian life through Lebanon's fifteen-year civil war and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt once clear-eyed and deeply compassionate, a portrait of everyday survival--shattered streets, sudden silences, the fragile rituals of family life--told with a storyteller's grace and emotional precision. As Jean and her husband choose to remain in their war-torn city, raising their children and teaching at local universities, she captures both the terror and the tenderness of living through catastrophe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmid ongoing regional violence and global patterns of displacement and erasure, \u003ci\u003eBeirut Fragments\u003c\/i\u003e offers a rare, layered perspective on identity, endurance, and the radical act of staying put when the world tries to unroot you.","brand":"Outsider Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54375518339438,"sku":"9780385552271","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_30de16e4-b8fc-4a28-a0b2-9470e950cb56.jpg?v=1784762556","url":"https:\/\/tenderbuttonsbooks.com\/products\/beirut-fragments","provider":"Tender Buttons Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}