Crossing

75 years of occupation, 11 chickens, 5 cancers, 1 language mistake … 35 years together. Can (interracial) love conquer all?

Crossing is a memoir-family saga which retraces the love story between Sabrin’s Palestinian father and Italian mother, and the life of her half-Italian, half-Palestinian family from the 1960s to 2020. After the loss of her mother, Sabrin tries to renegotiate her mixed identity and understand her mother’s choices from an oppressive childhood in a village in Tuscany to love and community activism in Palestine. 

This is a story about grief and what it means to lose not only loved ones, but also a place in the world and a sense of belonging.

Crossing (previously Wait for Her) has recently been awarded the Footnote x Counterpoints Writing Prize and will be published in 2025.

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